Family: Rutaceae
Plant: An erect shrub up to 1m high with rough stems and brown felted branchlets.
Flowers: Spreading star-like bright rose-pink 2cm diameter flowers with 4 petals 5-10mm long and 8 stamens. Flowers borne singly on stalks up to 12mm long.
Flowering: July-September.
Fruit: A small red coccus that is enclosed by the petals after flowering. It resembles a bud.
Leaves: Opposite, 1-3cm long 1-foliolate or pinnate with 3-7 leaflets and a winged rachis. The leaflet shape varies from oblong-linear to narrow-elliptic. The leaves are aromatic, dark green above, paler and hairy below.
Habitat: On sandy soils in dry sclerophyll forest and heathland.
Features: Trifoliolate aromatic leaves. Conspicuous star-like 4-petalled flowers.
Name:
Boronia After Francis Borone the Italian assistant to English botanical author Dr. Sidthorp.
ledifolia From Latin = with leaves similar to those of the Ledum a small group of European Heath plants.
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Type |
Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Regular, Single |
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Colour(s) |
Pink |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
4 |
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Flowering Month |
7, 8, 9 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Other |
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Colour |
Red |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Opposite |
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Type |
Other |
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Shape |
Oval, Linear |
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Length |
Short |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Stalked |
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Other Features |
Aromatic, Hairy, |
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Discolorous |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
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