Lissanthe strigosa

Lissanthe strigosa, commonly known as peach heath,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae, and is endemic to south-eastern Australia.

Lissanthe strigosa is a much-branched shrub 10–100 cm (3.9–39.4 in) high, and often forms suckers, its branchlets covered with tiny bristles.

Flowering occurs from August to November and the fruit is a flattened spherical, capsule 2.5–2.9 mm (0.098–0.114 in) long, white and fleshy.

[2][3][4] This species was first formally described in 1793 by James Edward Smith who gave it the name Styphelia strigosa in a A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland.

[2][3] Subspecies strigosa is restricted to the Central Coast of New South Wales, where it grows in poorly-drained clay soils.