Family: Proteaceae
Plant: An erect prickly shrub up to 1.5m high with hairy branchlets.
Flowers: Bright red tubular flowers with a long exserted pointed style in erect dense terminal clusters of 7 flowers surrounded by reddish-green bracts about 5cm long.
Flowering: All year but especially in September-May.
Fruit: Horned, woody follicle about 2.5cm long with a beak and 2 long horns.
Leaves: Narrow linear, 3-8cm long, 2-5mm wide, with a sharp, pointed tip and recurved margins. The leaves are dark green and shiny above but paler below and are usually whorled in clusters of 3.
Habitat: Common in heathland and as an understorey plant in dry sclerophyll forest.
Features: Sharp pointed leaves. Horned woody fruits (“Mountain Devils”). Red tubular flowers with exserted styles.
Name:
Lambertia After the English botanist Aylmer Bourke Lambert
formosa From Latin = beautiful
|
Type |
Shrub |
|
|
Flowers |
Form |
Tubular/Bell-shaped, |
|
|
|
Single, Cluster, |
|
|
Colour(s) |
Red |
|
|
Petal/Sepal No. |
Many |
|
|
Flowering Month |
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, |
|
|
|
12 |
|
Fruit |
Type |
Other |
|
|
Colour |
Brown |
|
|
Other Features |
Woody, Hard |
|
Leaves |
Arrangement |
Opposite, Whorled |
|
|
Type |
Simple |
|
|
Shape |
Linear |
|
|
Length |
Short, Medium |
|
|
Margins |
Entire |
|
|
Attachment |
Unstalked |
|
|
Other Features |
Sharp-tip, Tapered-tip, |
|
|
|
Discolorous |
|
Bark |
- |
|
|
Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
|