Deep Creek Correa

About

Correa eburnea, commonly known as the Deep Creek correa, is a species of shrub that is endemic to the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia. It has papery, elliptic to egg-shaped leaves, and up to five green, nodding flowers arranged in leaf axils.

How to spot it

Correa eburnea is a shrub that typically grows to a height of 1–4 m (3–10 ft) and has branchlets covered with rust-coloured hairs. The leaves are papery, egg-shaped to elliptical, mostly 30–50 mm (1.2–2.0 in) long on a short petiole and covered with minute white hairs on the lower surface. The flowers are arranged singly or in groups of up to five in leaf axils, each flower nodding on a pedicel about 2 mm (0.079 in) long with two round to heart-shaped bracts 10–25 mm (0.39–0.98 in) long at the b

Documented on these trails

Found in

• Deep Creek National Park — Adelaide, the Hills & Fleurieu Peninsula hikes