Family: Myrtaceae
Plant: A slender, erect shrub to 1.5m high with spindly stems.
Flowers: Masses of pinkish-purple terminal clusters of flowers. Each flower cluster is about 2cm across, has small 1-2mm long petals and many stamens that exceed the petals
Flowering: September-October.
Fruit: Capsule 3-4mm long and 2-3mm diameter
Leaves: Oblanceolate to ovate, 3.5-10mm long and 2-5mm wide with pointed down-curved tip and 3 distinct parallel veins. Leaf arrangement alternate. The leaves and stems are sometimes hairy and covered with oil dots.
Habitat: A fairly common shrub found in open, sunny, damp locations in heathland.
Features: Clusters of fluffy pinkish-purple flowers at end of the branches.
Name:
Kunzea After the German professor of botany Dr. Gustav Kunze
capitata From Latin = having-heads (referring to its flowers)
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Type |
Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
Pink, Purple |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
- |
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Flowering Month |
9, 10 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Capsule |
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Colour |
Green, Brown |
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Other Features |
Fleshy |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Oval |
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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 |
Aromatic, Hairy, |
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Oil dots/Glands, |
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Tapered-tip |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Heathland |
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