Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acrotriche aggregata
Common name
Red Cluster Heath, Tall Acrotriche, Tall Groundberry, Red Groundberry
Family
Ericaceae
Where found
Forest and shrubland, often in rocky areas. Kanangra-Boyd National Park, Blue Mountains National Park, and Wollemi National Park and nearby. One record from the tablelands south east of Bombala.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m or more high. Leaf tips sometimes sharp. Fruit usually fleshy. Bark dark brown to black, finely fissured to scaly. Young stems densely hairy with fawn to brownish simple hairs, becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, almost erect to spreading, 0.8–3.4 cm long, 2–7 mm wide, margins sometimes finely toothed towards the tips, lower surface white or glaucous. Flowers pale green, cream, or white, with a bell-shaped tube 1.5–4 mm long, and 5 lobes each 0.7–2 mm long, with a fringe of hairs at the tips and with 5 tufts of hairs spreading across the throat. Flowers in spikes of 5–10 flowers. Flowers spring. Fruit red.
Family was Epacridaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acrotriche~aggregata (accessed 2 January, 2021)
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