Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Choretrum candollei
Common name
White sour bush
Family
Santalaceae
Where found
Dry forest and woodland. Ranges, tablelands, and ACT. Coastal north from Tuross Head.
Notes
Tree or shrub to 5 m high. Branches moderately angular, sharply ridged below the leaf scars, hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, scale-like, 0.1–0.3 cm long, appressed to slightly spreading, usually present on young branches, then shedding late. Flowers with 5 white or cream 'petals' each about 1 mm long. Flowers single; subtended by leaf-like bracts. Flowering: mainly late winter to summer. Fruit dark, initially fleshy, dry at maturity.
Occasional intermediates between Choretrum candollei and Choretrum pauciflorum are known.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Choretrum~candollei (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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