Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Lomatia ilicifolia
Common name
Holly Lomatia, Native Holly
Family
Proteaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, and heath. Coast and ranges.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m high. Leaf tips sharp, leaf margins with sharp-tipped teeth. Buds and young branches rusty-hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 6–20 cm long, 30–50 mm wide, hairless or almost hairless, margins coarsely toothed, tips rounded to gradually tapering to a point, sharp tiped. Flowers yellowish to cream or white, hairless or almost hairless, tubular, the tube slit by the style in bud, with 4 'petals' 10–12 mm long, splitting to the base when the flower is fully open. Flower clusters 15–30 cm long. Flowers Spring to Summer, usually following fire. Seeds with one wing.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Lomatia~ilicifolia (accessed 24 January, 2021)
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