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Tall Baeckea

Sannantha virgata

Tall Baeckea
Photo: Daderot, CC0
Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
New Caledonia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Sannantha virgata is a flowering shrub species in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. It is endemic to New Caledonia. The plant grows to between 0.5 and 3 metres high. White flowers appear in spring or summer with 5 rounded petals surrounding 7 to 10 stamens. The fruits are 1–2 mm wide and 2–3 mm in length.

Other Sannantha plants

Clarence River Baeckea · Tall Baeckea · Sannantha brachypoda · Sannantha collina · Sannantha crassa · Sannantha crenulata · Sannantha cunninghamii · Sannantha papillosa · Tall Baeckea · Twiggy Myrtle · Sannantha tozerensis · Sannantha whitei

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sannantha virgata 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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