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Kunzea salina

Kunzea salina
Photo: A. Lyne, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Kunzea salina is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a low, spreading, densely branched shrub with leaves mostly arranged in opposite pairs and usually two sessile pale pink to white flowers arranged at the base of new shoots. It only grows near the edge of certain salt lakes.

Where it grows

Kunzea salina grows in white sand dunes over clay at the edges of small playa lakes

Other Kunzea plants

Kunzea acicularis · Kunzea acuminata · Kunzea affinis · Sand Dune Kanuka · Tickbush · Kunzea aristulata · Kunzea axillaris · Kunzea badjaensis · Scarlet Kunzea · Kunzea bracteolata · Kunzea caduca · Kunzea calida

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Kunzea salina 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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