Arching shrub to 1m tall, 1-2 m wide. Foliage grey. Flowers in cerise masses, clustered in the leaf axils in winter and spring. A seedling raised at the Burrendong Arboretum in the late 1970s to early 80s, initially thought to be H. crassinervia, later a hybrid, H. obtusa × H.. petiolaris.
