Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Correa alba var. alba

Flowering stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering stem. Photographer Don Wood, Eurobodalla National Park south of Moruya

Common name

White correa

Family

Rutaceae

Where found

Woodland, heath, coastal cliffs, and beaches. Coastal. Occasionally elsewhere.

Notes

 Shrub to 1.5 high or sprawling. Young stems rusty hairy. Branchlets smooth. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other, 0.8–3.5 cm long, 6–27 mm wide, upper surface sparsely hairy or hairless, lower surface tomentose, tips rounded. Flowers white or rarely pink, with 4 petals each 10-15 mm long, soon more or less free from each other and spreading. Flowers not hanging down. Calyx cup-shaped or hemispherical, 2–4 mm long, 4-toothed or broadly lobed to squared off, fawn-hairy. Flowers in 1–4-flowered clusters. Flowers mainly Autumn to Winter.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Correa~alba (accessed 7 January, 2021)