Family: Rutaceae
Plant: An erect heath-like shrub up to 1m high.
Flowers: Pink to mauve star-shaped flowers with 5 petals and 10 stamens. The inflorescence has 1-3 flowers at end of stem.
Flowering: July-December.
Fruit: 5-lobed, beaked, green to black cocci 5-6mm long.
Leaves: Linear, up to 2cm long and 1-2mm wide. The leaves are crowded along the stem, alternately arranged, dotted with oil glands on the underside and are aromatic.
Habitat: On rocky or sandy sites in sunny locations in dry sclerophyll forest and heathland.
Features: Pink to mauve 5-petalled star-shaped flowers. Aromatic leaves.
Name:
Philotheca From Greek philos = loving and theke = box (referring to its fused anther filaments).
salsolifolia From having leaves like a Salosa.
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Type |
Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Regular, Single |
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Colour(s) |
Pink, Violet, Mauve |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
5 |
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Flowering Month |
7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Other |
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Colour |
Green, Black |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate, Crowded |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
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 |
Aromatic, Oil |
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dots/glands |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
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