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Lissanthe strigosa
Lissanthe strigosa, commonly known as peach heath, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae, and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a shrub with linear to lance-shaped leaves and white to pink, cylindrical flowers.
Peach heath is widely distributed in Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia, where it grows in forest, scrub and heath on sandy soils. Subspecies strigosa is restricted to the Central Coast of New South Wales, where it grows in poorly-drained clay soils. Subspecies subulata is found in eastern New South Wales and as far east as the Pilliga forest and in Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lissanthe strigosa 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.
