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Australian Native Currant

Acrotriche depressa

Australian Native Currant
Photo: DiverDave, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
South Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acrotriche depressa, commonly known as wiry ground-berry or honeypots, is a flowering plant in the family Ericaceae. It is a small shrub with crowded greyish-green leaves and white or green flowers and grows in southern Australia.

Where it grows

Honeypots grows in sclerophyll forest on a variety of soils, including loam, basalt, granite and sandy soil in Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales.

Other Acrotriche plants

Prickly Honey Pots · Ground Berry · Acrotriche baileyana · Coast Ground Berry · 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 depressa 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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