Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Astroloma humifusum
Common name
Native cranberry
Family
Ericaceae
Where found
Dry forest, grassy woodland, heath, and disturbed sites, often on ridges and slopes. Widespread.
Notes
Shrub to 0.70 m high or mat-forming to about 1 m diameter. Fruit fleshy, edible. Leaves with sharp points. Branchlets hairy with fine hairs. Leaves crowded, 0.5–1.8 cm long, 0.6–3 mm wide, often tinged purplish, margins toothed to fringed. Flowers 11-15 mm long, bright to dark red; tubular, the tube 7–15 mm long, with 5 lobes 2.5–5.3 mm long, the lobes densely bearded inside except at tip. Flowers often more or less hidden in the foliage, single or rarely 2 or 3 together. Flowering: throughout the year. Fruit globular to oblong, green to purplish when ripe, about 5-10 mm long.
Family was Epacridaceae.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Astroloma~humifusum (accessed 4 January, 2021)
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