Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Epacris pulchella

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, west of Burrill Lake

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

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer A McWhirter, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Wallum heath

Family

Ericaceae

Where found

Forest, shrubland, and heath. North of Batemans Bay. Coast, ranges, and tablelands.

Notes

Shrub to 1.5 m high. Stems with inconspicuous leaf scars.  Branchlets woolly. Leaves scattered or overlapping, 0.21–0.65 cm long, 1.4–4 mm wide, thin, concave in cross section, margins finely toothed; tips gradually tapering to a long point. Flowers white or pinkish, 5–8 mm in diameter, tubular, the tube 3–5.5 mm long, with 5 spreading lobes. No hairs on the inside of the flowers. Flowers extending down the branches. Flowering: throughout the year.

 Family was Epacridaceae.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Epacris~pulchella  (accessed 12 January, 2021)