Family: Ericaceae
Plant: A slender spreading or erect prickly shrub up to 90cm high with wiry branches.
Flowers: Tiny white to pinkish tubular flowers about 4mm across with 5 spreading lobes – the insides of the lobes are hairy. The buds are often pinkish.
Flowering: July-October.
Fruit: A ridged drupe 2-6mm long, green turning brown.
Leaves: Oblong, stalkless, 4-15mm long and 1-2mm wide with recurved margins, a short sharp tip and longitudinal veins.
Habitat: Common in heathland.
Features: Sharply-pointed leaves with 3 longitudinal veins. Small white tubular flowers with woolly lobes.
Name:
Leucopogon From Greek leuco = white and pogon = beard (referring to its bearded flowers)
ericoides From Latin = erica-like (referring to its leaves being similar to those of Erica, the European Heath or Heather)
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Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Tubular/Bell-shaped, Single |
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Colour(s) |
White, Pink |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
5 |
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Flowering Month |
7, 8, 9, 10 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Drupe |
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Colour |
Green, Brown |
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Other Features |
Ribbed |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Linear |
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Length |
Tiny, Short |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Unstalked |
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Other Features |
Sharp-tip |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Heathland |
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