Family: Ericaceae
Plant: A large rounded shrub up to 4m high.
Flowers: White, bell-shaped, 5-lobed flowers 3mm across with 5 stamens and tipped by yellow to orange anthers. Usually 4-16 flowers together in terminal racemes often crowded at the branch tips..
Flowering: July-September.
Fruit: Fleshy, red to orange drupe, 3-4mm long.
Leaves: Elliptic to oblong 1-2.5cm long and 3-7mm wide with a tapered tip. The leaves are paler below and marked with conspicuous parallel veins.
Habitat: Mainly in dunes and coastal heathland but can occasionally be found in dry sclerophyll forest.
Features: Leaves with white under surface and parallel veins. Tiny white bell-shaped flowers
Name:
Monotoca From Greek = single-offspring (referring to the single seed in its fruit)
elliptica From Latin = elliptic (referring to its leaves)
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Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Tubular/Bell-shaped, Cluster, |
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Colour(s) |
White, Cream |
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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 |
Red, Orange |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Oval, Linear |
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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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Discolorous |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland, Beach |
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