Common Name

Desert Heath-myrtle, Desert Baeckea

Family

Myrtaceae

Notes

Shrub to 75cm tall. Leaves aromatic when crushed, opposite each other, 0.1-0.5cm long, about 0.5mm wide, flat to flattened cylindrical, hairless, edges curved upwards, tips blunt. Flowers white to mauve, with 5 petals, solitary at the bases of the leaves.

Description and photo of flowers in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 512

PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Baeckea~crassifolia