Scientific Name: Rhytidosporum procumbens

Common Name: starry appleberry

Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots

Family: Pittosporaceae

Form Description: Tiny shrub with small, dark green, linear to linear-oblong leaves.

Height (m): 0.2 – 0.6

Flowers: Starry white, sometimes fringed with crimson, about 1cm in diameter.

Fruit: Capsule – broader than long, the valves having fine transverse wrinkles. Seeds ovoid, deeply wrinkled.

Municipality
Break O’DayBrightonBurnieCentral HighlandsClarenceDerwent ValleyDevonportDorsetFlindersGeorge TownGlamorgan-Spring BayGlenorchyHobartHuon ValleyKingboroughLatrobeLauncestonNorthern MidlandsSorellSouthern MidlandsTasmanWaratah-WynyardWest Tamar
Plant Communities
Coastal VegetationDry Eucalypt ForestHeath
Habitat Notes

Common in sandy heaths and dry sclerophyll forests.

Site Tolerance

Dry, Exposed, Shady

Soil Tolerance

Loam, Nutrient-poor, Sandy, Well-drained

Propagation Calendar

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Propagation Method
Seed, Cuttings

Seed Information

Seed Collection

Worth trying from seed.

Cutting & Division Information

Can be propagated from cuttings.