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Gardening with Indigenous Plants
Indigenous Plant Use
Identification & Control of Common Weeds
| Botanical Name: | Correa reflexa var. speciosa synonym: Correa reflexa var. cardinalis |
| Common Name: | eastern correa, red correa |
| Sold As: | Tube ($2.00) |
| Plant Type(s): | Low Growing Shrub (30 cm to 1 m), Cottage |
| Growing Conditions: | Full Sun, Partial Shade
Well Drained |
| Size (HxW): | Spreading shrub to 1 m high |
| Foliage: | Leaves somewhat coriaceous, oblong, or more commonly, narrowly ovate to ovate, mostly (6–)10–20(–30) mm long, 4–12 mm wide, apex obtuse, base rounded to slightly cordate, sparsely stellate and scabrous above (rarely glabrescent), sparsely to densely fawn-tomentose beneath, margin minutely undulate and often recurved. |
| Flowers: | Flower erect or pendent, not clasped by subtending leaves; calyx hemispherical, c. truncate, 4-dentate, 3–4 mm long ferruginous-tomentose; corolla c. cylindric, 2.5–4 cm long, entirely brilliant red, or with green tips. Flowers mostly autumn-spring. |
| General Comments: | Typically grows on coastal dunes, sand, or on sandstone in dry sclerophyll woodland. |
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| Similar Plant(s): | Correa reflexa |
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