Appearance
The mallee typically grows to a height of 1.5 to 8 metres that has rough fibrous bark on the trunk with smooth bark above. It produces white-cream to red-pink flowers between April and October. The flower buds and fruits are large and ribbed or “winged” and are found in pendulous groups of three. It has variable form ranging from a small compact shrub-like habit to a taller more irregular habit. The flowers are highly decorative usually with pink-red buds that open to cream-yellow flowers that are around 3 centimetres across. The dull, grey-green, thick and concolorous adult leaves have a disjunct arrangement. The leaf blade has a narrow lanceolate to broad lanceolate and is basally tapered. The buds are globose and rostrate, with a calyx calyptrate that sheds early. The fruits are hemispherical with a raised disc and exserted valves.The species is grown in gardens and is drought tolerant but can be susceptible to scale.
Distribution
It is found on rocky rises and sand plains in inland areas of the Pilbara, Mid West and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia where it grows in thin sandy soils over sandstone or ironstone with a range that extends to north western South Australia.References:
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