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Coast Ground Berry

Acrotriche cordata

Coast Ground Berry
Photo: Kym Nicolson, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub, Succulent
Native range
S. & SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acrotriche cordata, commonly known as coast ground-berry, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to southern Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub, with linear, oblong or egg-shaped leaves, and spikes of tube-shaped, pale green, flowers, and succulent pale green drupes.

Where it grows

Coast ground-berry grows on coastal or near-coastal limestone on cliffs and dunes in the Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Hampton, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren of Western Australia and to the south-east of South Australia. It is restricted to a few sites in Victoria, where it is listed as "endangered" under the Victorian Government Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 and in the Furneaux Group Tasmania, where it is listed as "vulnerable" under the Tasmanian Government Threatened Species Protection Act 1995.

Other Acrotriche plants

Prickly Honey Pots · Ground Berry · Acrotriche baileyana · Australian Native Currant · Acrotriche divaricata · Acrotriche dura · Mount Lofty Ground Berry · Acrotriche halmaturina · Acrotriche lancifolia · Tall Acrotriche · Acrotriche orbicularis · Acrotriche parviflora

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acrotriche cordata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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