Family: Ericaceae
Plant: A slender, erect shrub up to 1m high with softly hairy stems.
Flowers: White or cream tubular to bell-shaped honey-scented flowers with 5 spreading lobes and 5 stamens. Flower tubes 5-14mm long hang in clusters along one side of erect stems.
Flowering: June-November.
Fruit: A small reddish-brown capsule about 3mm long.
Leaves: Erect elliptic, 6-12mm long with parallel veins and a thickened blunt tip. The leaves are pressed against the stem. The margins are entire or minutely toothed.
Habitat: Heathland, usually in wet and marshy areas.
Features: Blunt leaves with parallel veins. Masses of white tubular flowers along one side of stem.
Name:
Epacris From Latin epi = upon and akros = the top (referring to its habitat originally thought to have been confined to the tops of hills)
obtusifolia From Latin = blunt-leaved
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Type |
Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Tubular/Bell-shaped, |
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Single, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
White, Cream |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
5 |
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Flowering Month |
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Capsule |
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Colour |
Red, Brown |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Crowded |
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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, Toothed/Serrated |
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Attachment |
Stalked. Unstalked |
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Other Features |
Tapered-tip |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Heathland |
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