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White Correa

White Correa

Correa alba

Family Rutaceae

Hardy coastal shrub

About

A tough, salt-tolerant shrub found along the coastlines of south-eastern Australia, doing well on the exposed limestone and dune country typical of the Limestone Coast and Eyre Peninsula.

How to spot it

Rounded, leathery, felty-grey leaves with woolly hairs underneath. Open, star-like white flowers (rarely pale pink) borne singly or in small clusters, unlike the tubular bell-flowers of most other correas.

Found in

  • Canunda National Park
  • Lincoln National Park

Source: Wikipedia

Photo: JJ Harrison (CC BY-SA 3.0) via Wikimedia Commons