#beard-heath

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#3589 - Leucopogon pulchellus - Beautiful Beard-heath

Specifically 'beautiful little beard-heath'.

A small shrub, growing up to 1 meter tall, endemic to the SW. It mainly grows in lateritic or granitic soil, and given the soil here in Kalamunda National Park was ALL laterite or granite, that fits.

Kalamunda NP, Perth

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#1764 - Leucopogon parviflorus - Coast Beard-Heath

AKA Native Currant

Native to most Australian coastlines, New Zealand, and the Chatham Islands, where it happily grows on granite, limestone, sand dunes and heath. Rarely found more than 500m from the shoreline. In this case it was granite overlooking Smiths Beach, Yallingup. 

It can grow up to 5m high, although wind-pruning can keep it much shorter, and flowers year-round. Oddly, the fruit turns brilliant white when ripe, and they are edible even if mostly seed. 

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#2661 - Styphelia nesophila - Pātōtara

AKA as Sharp Beard-heath, and Dwarf Mingimingi. Synonyms include Leucopogon nesophilus, Cyathodes fraseri, Leucopogon bellignianus, Leucopogon fraseri, Leucopogon stuartii, Pentachondra mucronata, Styphelia fraseri and Styphelia mucronata.

A small plant found in the higher parts of SE Australia, and much of Aotearoa. It grows in forest, shrubland and heath, often in poorly-drained or sandy soils or among rocks, and usually above about 500 m. This one was growing on the side of the path north of the Mount Cook Tourist Village.

Aoraki / Mt Cook, Aotearoa New Zealand

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#868 - Leucopogon sp. - Beard Heath

Literally “White Beard”. 150-160 species from the Ericaceae, most diverse in the SE of Australia, but also found the western Pacific, New Caledonia, New Zealand and Malaysia. The flowers, usually white, unfurl into five hairy petals.

Sullivan Rock, SE of Perth