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Epacris gunnii

Epacris gunnii
Photo: Melburnian, CC BY 3.0

Epacris gunnii is a small erect Australian heath shrub, up to about 1 m tall, with white tube-shaped flowers along the stems. It is native to cool, moist, high-elevation forest, heath and grassland in south-eastern Australia, and is grown mainly by enthusiasts of native heath plants.

Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist but never waterlogged, and use rainwater or low-salt water.
Soil
Acidic, free-draining, peaty or sandy mix.
Temperature
5–24 °C; tolerates frost, protect from prolonged heat above 30 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Tasmania
Climate
temperate

About

Epacris gunnii is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with hairy branchlets, concave, sharply-pointed, broadly egg-shaped leaves, and tube-shaped, white flowers arranged along the stems.

Where it grows

This epacris grows in forest, heath and grassland, sometime on stream banks and occurs on the coast and tablelands of eastern New South Wales, and mostly in higher places in eastern Victoria and Tasmania. In New South Wales it grows on peaty soils in association with Leptospermum glaucescens, Sprengelia incarnata and Ranunculus species.

Other Epacris plants

Epacris acuminata · Epacris apiculata · Epacris apsleyensis · Bearded Heath · Drumstick Heath · Epacris browniae · Epacris calvertiana · Epacris celata · Epacris cerasicollina · Epacris coriacea · Epacris corymbiflora · Epacris crassifolia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Epacris gunnii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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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