Slender Velvet-Bush

About

Lasiopetalum baueri, commonly known as slender velvet bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a small, greyish shrub with more or less linear to narrowly oblong or narrowly elliptic leaves and groups of white or pink flowers.

How to spot it

Lasiopetalum baueri is a greyish, densely foliaged, spreading shrub 0.3–1.5 m (12–59 in) high and 1–2.5 m (3.3–8.2 ft) wide, its new growth prominently covered with red-brown hair. The leaves are linear to narrowly oblong or narrowly elliptic, 15–80 mm (0.59–3.15 in) long and 2–12 mm (0.079–0.472 in) wide on a petiole 2–4 mm (0.079–0.157 in) long, the margins flat or turned downwards. Hairy below, they become smooth above over time. The flowers are arranged in sometimes crowded groups of two to

Documented on these trails

Found in

• Rocky Cape National Park — Tasmania hikes