Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Darwinia procera
Common name
A Darwinia
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Dry forest and shrubland at the head of sheltered gullies on sandstone, and on sandstone slopes. Sydney area north of Frenchs Forest, within 20 km of the coast.
Notes
Erect shrub, to 5 m high. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other, 1.0–2.5 cm long, to 2.5 mm wide, hairless. Flowers with 5 curved petals, each 1.5-1.7 mm long, and 5 sepals less than 1 mm long, up to half the length of the petals, at the top of the floral tube. Floral tube 5–8 mm long, 1.5–2.5 mm in diameter, with broad, rounded, longitudinal ridges, white above the ovary, the top often becoming red. Style straight or slightly curved, 14–20 mm long, white, sometimes becoming red. Flowers surrounded by 2 oblong bracteoles 8–11 mm long, red brown or red purple, falling after the flowers open. Flowers in clusters of 2-8, arranged in pairs. Flowers late winter to spring.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Darwinia~procera (accessed 9 January, 2021)
Additional information in Briggs, B.G. (1962) The New South Wales Species of Darwinia. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium. 3(3): 145-146, fig. 5f
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