Sweet Bursaria

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Bursaria spinosa ssp. spinosa


Erect small tree to 6 m and 2-3 m wide with spiny branch tips. Flowers white or creamy. Shiny narrow dark green leaves. Fruit a flattened papery capsule, bronze when mature.


Details
Flora Type
Shrubs
Other Common Names
Prickly Box, Kurwan, Tupy
Distinctive Features

Masses of sweet-smelling creamy flowers at the end of the branches. The papery bronze cup-shaped seed capsules (bursa = purse) are distinctive.

Biology

Perennial. Widespread on well-drained soils in grasslands, woodlands and dry forests.

Native Status
Native
Flowering Time

Dec-Mar