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Gaultheria appressa
Gaultheria appressa, the white waxberry, is a native Australian shrub of cool, moist forest and subalpine scrub that produces white fleshy fruits. It is grown mainly by enthusiasts and suits cool, humid, lightly shaded gardens with acidic soil.
Gaultheria appressa, the waxberry or white waxberry, is a shrub in the family Ericaceae. The species is endemic to Australia. It has an erect or spreading habit, growing to between 0.5 and 2 metres (1.6 and 6.6 ft) high, and has reddish brown hairs on its stems. Leaves are 3 to 8 cm (1.2 to 3.1 in) long and 1 to 3 cm (0.39 to 1.18 in) wide with small teeth along the edges. Flowers appear in groups of three to eleven in racemes in late spring to summer. The sepals become fleshy, white and enlarged during fruit formation. The fruits are between 7 and 10 millimetres (0.28 and 0.39 in) in diameter.
The species occurs in woodland, forest, subalpine scrub and rainforest margins in New South Wales and Victoria. In the Greater Sydney region it is recorded in areas with an altitude of between 800 and 1,000 metres (2,600 and 3,300 ft) and with an annual rainfall of 1,000 mm (39 in).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gaultheria appressa 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.
