Epacris lanuginosa

Epacris lanuginosa, commonly known as woolly-style heath,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia.

It is a slender, erect shrub with hairy branchlets, linear to lance-shaped leaves, and tube-shaped, white flowers crowded along the ends of the branches.

Epacris lanuginosa is a slender, erect shrub that typically growing to a height of up to about 1.6 m (5 ft 3 in)and has woolly-hairy branchlets.

[2][3][4] Epacris lanuginosa was first formally described in 1805 by Jacques Labillardière in his Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen.

[2][3][4] Epacris lanuginosa is susceptible to the exotic fungal rot root disease caused by Phytophthora cinnamomi.

Flower detail