Philotheca salsolifolia

Philotheca

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.

Search Criteria

 

Type

Shrub

Flowers

Form

Regular, Single

 

Colour(s)

Pink, Violet, Mauve

 

Petal/Sepal No.

5

 

Flowering Month

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Fruit

Type       

Other

 

Colour

Green, Black

 

Other Features

-

Leaves

Arrangement

Alternate, Crowded

 

Type       

Simple

 

Shape

Linear

 

Length    

Short

 

Margins  

Entire

 

Attachment

Unstalked

 

Other Features

Aromatic, Oil           

 

 

dots/glands

Bark

-

Habitat

Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland