Tropical Zone Gardening: Restless natives of the Top End, 1 by tropicbreeze
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tropicbreeze wrote: Calytrix exstipulata is a shrub to 2 metres high which gets covered with these small flowers at the start of the dry season. For Aborigines, who call it Manbarndarr, it's a calendar plant, signalling the end of the wet season.Otherwise it's called Turkey Bush. Does well in gravelly disturbed areas and is often seen lining roadsides in spectacular displays. Photo 007 This message was edited Mar 22, 2009 11:53 AM |