Acrotriche divaricata

Acrotriche divaricata is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to New South Wales.

It is a bushy shrub with sharply-pointed lance-shaped leaves and spikes of 3 to 5 green or cream-coloured flowers and spherical, red drupes.

Flowering mostly occurs between July and September and the fruit is a more or less spherical, fleshy, red drupe about 3 mm (0.12 in) in diameter.

[2][3][4] Acrotriche divaricata was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.

[2] A similar species Acrotriche leucocarpa with pearly white fruit, occurs in Victoria.

Fruit near Norah Head