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Based on Debenham C’s, The Language of Botany, A Publication of The Society for Growing Australian Plants, Chipping Norton NSW, c.1962.
Patersonia fragilis
Botanical Name: Patersonia fragilis
Commonly Called: Short purpleflag
Botanical Family: Iridaceae
Grows: The clumps grow 10 to 40cm high by 30 to 40cm wide
Foliage: The firm leaves are narrow, sheathing, ridged and linear. They are dull green/blue to green, 20 to 40cm long.
Flowers: The flowers have 3 conspicuous rounded blue/mauve perianth segments, enclosed in brown terminal bracts on stems shorter than the leaves.
Flowering Season: Flowers appear in late spring and into summer.
Fruit: The fruit is a 3-celled capsule.
Habitat/distribution: The beautiful small clumping plant is found in moist coastal heaths. It also grows in SA, Vic and NSW.
Where found: Strahan, Queenstown, Birchs River Plains and many other places in the west; King, Three Hummock, Furneaux and Bruny Islands; Georgetown, Bridport, St Helens area and many locations in the north east; Freycinet, Forrestier and Tasman Peninsulas and near Orford; Lindisfarne, Longley, near Geeveston, near Hastings Caves and many other places in the south east; Heritage Forest Tasmanian Native Garden; Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens; Tasmanian Bushland Garden, Buckland; and The Tasmanian Arboretum, Eugenana; also many home gardens.
Other notes: Can be differentiated from P. occidentalis by its smaller growth habit, with narrower leaves and flower stems shorter than the leaves. The flower bracts contain many flowers that each last about one day. Grow in well drained moist soil in full sun.
Pimelea drupacea
Botanical Name: Pimelea drupacea
Commonly Called: Cherry riceflower
Botanical Family: Thymelaeaceae
Grows: An open shrub growing 1 to 3m high by 0.5 to 1m wide.
Foliage: The leaves are arranged in pairs, elliptical in shape, green upper surface, slightly hairy undersurface with prominent veins.
Flowers: The small white/cream terminal flower clusters which may appear to be axillary because of the shortness of branchlet, have 2 leaf-like bracts and 2 central orange stamens. As the flowers mature they tend to develop a pink throat.
Flowering Season: The flowers appear in late spring.
Fruit: The fruit matures from reddish to a shiny ovoid black drupe.
Habitat/distribution: This shrub is widespread and common as understorey in wet sclerophyll forests. It is also found in Victoria
Where found: Wide spread in wet sclerophyll; throughout the south west, west, north west, north east and south east; Maria, Bruny and Bass Strait Islands; Cradle Mountain and Lake St Claire, Hartz Mountain and Tasman NPs; Wellington Park; Richardsons Road near High Yellow Bluff and MacGregor Road, Forestier Peninsula.
Other notes: Black shiny, ovoid fruit on plant in wet forests. A hardy plant for moist locations in part shade to full sun. Tip pruning after fruiting enhances the plant. The black shiny fruit attracts birds.
- Acacia axillaris Sp E
- Acacia dealbata Sp
- Acacia derwentiana Sp E
- Acacia genistifolia Sp
- Acacia gunnii Sp
- Acacia leprosa Sp
- Acacia melanoxylon Sp
- Acacia verticillata Sp
- Amperea xiphoclada Sp
- Anodopetalum biglandulosum Sp E
- Anopterus glandulosus Sp E
- Aotus ericoides Sp
- Aristotelia peduncularis Sp E
- Arthropodium strictum Sp
- Athrotaxis cupressoides Sp E
- Athrotaxis selaginoides Sp E
- Bedfordia salicina Sp E
- Billardiera longiflora Sp E
- Blandfordia punicea Sp E
- Boronia citriodora Sp E
- Boronia gunnii E Sp
- Brachyscome spathulata Sp
- Bulbine glauca Sp
- Chamaescilla corymbosa Sp
- Chrysocephalum apiculatum Sp
- Comesperma volubile Sp
- Coprosma quadrifida Sp
- Cyathodes glauca Sp E
- Daviesia latifolia Sp
- Diplarrena moraea Sp
- Dodonea filiformis Sp E
- Epacris acuminata Sp E
- Epacris impressa Sp
- Epacris virgata Sp E
- Eucalyptus risdonii Sp E
- Eucalyptus delegatensis subsp. tasmaniensis Sp E
- Eucalyptus tenuiramis Sp E
- Eucalyptus vernicosa Sp E
- Goodenia elongata Sp
- Goodenia lanata Sp
- Goodenia ovata Sp
- Goodia lotifolia Sp
- hakea-epiglottis subsp. epiglottis Sp E
- Hakea lissosperma Sp
- Hardenbergia violacea Sp
- Hibbertia appressa Sp
- Hibbertia procumbens Sp
- Hibbertia riparia Sp
- Hibbertia sericea var sericea Sp
- Lagarostrobos franklinii Sp E
- Lasiopetalum micranthum Sp E
- Leptecophylla parvifolia Sp E
- Leptospermum nitidum Sp E
- Lissanthe strigosa Sp
- Melaleuca pustulata Sp E
- Melaleuca virens Sp E
- Milligania densiflora Sp E
- Odixia achlaena Sp E
- Olearia archeri Sp E
- Orites acicularis Sp E
- Orites revolutus Sp E
- Ozothamnus scutellifolius Sp E
- Patersonia fragilis Sp
- Phebalium daviesii Sp E
- Pimelea drupacea Sp
- Pimelea nivea Sp E
- Pimelea sericea Sp E
- Pomaderris pilifera subsp. talpicutica Sp E
- Richea pandanifolia Sp E
- Spyridium obovatum var. obovatum Sp E
- Spyridium obovatum var. velutinum Sp E
- Spyridium ulicinum Sp E
- Stackhousia monogyna Sp
- Tetratheca gunnii Sp E
- Trochocarpa thymifolia Sp E
- Veronica formosa E Sp
- Vittadinia muelleri Sp
- Westringia angustifolia Sp E
- Westringia brevifolia Sp E
- Westringia rubiifolia Sp E
- Zieria arborescens Sp
- Beaked needlebush Sp E
- Blackwood Sp
- Blue lovecreeper Sp
- Blue stars Sp
- Bluish bulbine-lily Sp
- Broom spurge Sp
- Bushmans bootlace Sp E
- Button-leaf everlastingbush Sp E
- Central lemon boronia Sp E
- Cheeseberry Sp E
- Cherry riceflower Sp
- Chocolate lily Sp
- Christmas bells Sp E
- Claspleaf heath Sp E
- Common Everlasting Sp
- Common heath Sp
- Common speedwell bush Sp E
- Davies waxflower Sp E
- Derwent wattle Sp E
- Erect guineaflower Sp
- Fineleaf hopbush Sp E
- Forest candles Sp
- Golden everlastingbush Sp E
- Golden pea Sp
- Gumtopped stringybark Sp E
- Heartberry Sp E
- Hop bitterpea Sp
- Hop native-primrose Sp
- Horizontal Sp E
- Huon pine Sp E
- King Billy pine Sp E
- Lanceleaf daisybush Sp E
- Lanky native-primrose Sp
- Midlands wattle Sp E
- Moleskin dogwood Sp E
- Mountain needlebush Sp
- Mountain pinkberry Sp E
- Mountain riceflower Sp E
- Narrowleaf westringia Sp E
- Native currant Sp
- Peachberry heath Sp
- Prickly moses Sp
- Pandani Sp E
- Pencil pine Sp E
- Ploughshare wattle Sp
- Pretty heath Sp E
- Prickly bottlebrush Sp E
- Prickly moses Sp
- Purple appleberry Sp E
- Purple coral-pea Sp
- Revolute orites Sp E
- Risdon peppermint Sp E
- River boronia Sp E
- Scented dustymiller Sp E
- Shiny teatree Sp E
- Shortleaf westringia Sp E
- Short purpleflag Sp
- Shy pinkbells Sp E
- Silky guineaflower Sp
- Silky milligania Sp E
- Silver peppermint Sp E
- Silver wattle Sp
- Smooth dustymiller Sp E
- Smooth goldentip Sp
- Southern guineaflower Sp
- Spoonleaf daisy Sp
- Spreading guineaflower Sp
- Spreading wattle Sp
- Sticky westringia Sp E
- Stinkwood Sp
- Tasmanian blanketleaf Sp E
- Tasmanian laurel Sp E
- Tasmanian velvetbush Sp E
- Thymeleaf purpleberry Sp E
- Trailing native-primrose Sp
- Urn gum Sp E
- Varnish wattle Sp
- Velvet dustymiller Sp E
- Warty paperbark Sp E
- White flag-iris Sp
- Yellow orites Sp E