Epacris breviflora Stapf

Drumstick Heath

Erect shrub up to 2 m tall. Branchlets hairy. Leaves ovate to about 8 mm long, tip-pointed, base tapering, stalk short. Flowers erect in clusters at the tip of the branchlets, white; year-round but mostly spring. Floral tube extremely short.

Qld, NSW, Vic

Grows naturally in damp places.

Flower in heads, the floral tube shorter than the sepals.

Source: Spencer, R. (1997). Epacridaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 2. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 1. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.

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Distribution map
kingdom Plantae
phylum   Tracheophyta
class    Magnoliopsida
superorder     Asteranae
order      Ericales
family       Ericaceae
genus        Epacris Cav.