Melichrus urceolatus

Melichrus urceolatus, commonly known as urn heath,[2] honey gorse or cream urn-heath,[3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia.

It is an erect shrub with narrowly lance-shaped leaves with deep grooves on the lower surface, white, cream-coloured or yellowish-green flowers, sometimes with a red or rose-pink tinge, and spherical greenish-white or purplish-brown fruit.

Melichrus urceolatus is an erect, stiffly-branched shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.2–1.5 m (7.9 in – 4 ft 11.1 in), forms a lignotuber and has branchlets with soft hairs.

It flowers from March to November and the fruit is a flattened spherical, greenish-white or purplish-brown drupe about 4 mm (0.16 in) long.

[7] This species of Melichrus is found in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria, where it grows in forest, woodland and mallee scrub.