Exocarpos strictus, with common names pale-fruit ballart, pale ballart, and dwarf cherry,[1][2] is an adaptably versatile erect shrub bearing cherry-like fruit, that forms dense thickets, that is native to parts of Australia (including Tasmania).

Though often hairy early on, E. strictus'  branches typically become fine and vertical; occasionally they become either stout or long (rarely above 3.5 m) and bending downward with the weight of their foliage and/or fruit.

[2] Its leaves are 1 – 3 mm in length, caducous, linear, subulate, and vary in colour from light green to a bluish-green, and ashy to bronze[2] The flowers of E. strictus grow in little pedunculate or sessile clusters numbering 2–6.

The pedicel is 2–7 mm long, succulent, broadly obovoid, and coloured either mauve, red, or white.

[2] E. strictus grows in great numbers in all but the very wettest and driest of habitats ranging from heathland to open forests to denser woodland.