Family: Ericaceae
Plant: A bushy shrub up to about 1.5m high.
Flowers: White, tubular flowers 3mm long with 5 spreading lobes. Flowers arranged in short 1-3cm long dense spikes in leaf axils with 7-13 flowers per spike. The inside of the lobes are hairy. The buds are white to pink.
Flowering: July-September.
Fruit: Pale yellowish-green globular drupe 5mm long.
Leaves: Dull green elliptic to oblanceolate 1-3cm long and 2-7mm wide, paler on the underside, flexible, concave below with a bluntly pointed tip and longitudinal veins
Habitat: Common on open coastline and heathland bordering coastal dunes.
Features: Longitudinal veins on leaves. White woolly flowers in dense axillary spikes.
Name:
Leucopogon From Greek leuco = white and pogon = beard (referring to its bearded flowers)
parviflorus From Latin = small-flowered
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Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Tubular/Bell-shaped, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
White |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
5 |
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Flowering Month |
7, 8, 9 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Drupe |
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Colour |
Cream, Yellow, Green |
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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 |
Short |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Unstalked |
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Other Features |
Tapered-tip |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Heathland |
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