| CALYTRIX TETRAGONA Myrtaceae Photo Duncan Wade APS Erect branched shrub with many twiggy branches and small fine linear or terete leaves, glabrous or shortly hairy. Flowers solitary in axils near ends of upper branches, forming showy heads. Calyx, shallow, cup-shaped, each sepal produced into a long fine awn projecting beyond the flower. Petals 5, white or pink. Stamens about 20, long, conspicuous. Fruit dry. Flowering October-December. Widespread in coastal heaths where it is often dense and wind pruned, and along some northern rivers. (All States) |
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SELLIERA RADICANS
Goodeniaceae
The fleshy spathulate (spoon shaped) bright green
leaves Photo Michael Garrett, APS |
| A purple-flowered coastal annual or
short-lived perennial herb. Leaves deeply bipinnately lobed, rather fleshy
with base stem-clasping. Branching stems to 60 cm high, bearing terminal
clusters of daisy flowers 2.5-4 cm across with bright purple rays and yellow
discs. Fruit with pappus. A plant of stabilised sandy shores and low coastal banks especially on Bass Strait islands but not common on the mainland of Tasmania. This plant is extremely toxic for browsing stock. Flowering October-December. Native of South Africa, has now spread in isolated patches along the coasts of Tas. Vic. WA. SA. and New Zealand. |
SENECIO ELEGANS Asteraceae
Purple Ragwort
Photo Duncan Wade, APS |
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PIMELEA FLAVA
Thymelaeaceae |
| Shrub 0.5 to 1.5 metres high with
slender erect branches arising in whorls below the previous year’s flower
heads. Bark light brown, smooth, tearing in ribbons. Leaves 4-12 mm long,
opposite, obovate - oblong or orbicular, blunt, bluish-green. Flower heads
bright buttercup yellow, made up of many tubular flowers surrounded by
four wide green bracts. |