Scientific Name: Styphelia margarodes

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  • Pronunciation:
    Sty-FEE-lee-uh mar-gar-O-des
  • Common Name:
    Pearl-fruited Beard Heath
  • Derivation:
    was Leucopogon margarodes
  • Type:
    Shrub
  • Family:
    ERICACEAE
  • Flowers:
    White tubular flowers to 4mm with hairy throat. Autumn to spring.
  • Fruit:
    Small, compressed, translucent to 4mm
  • Vegetation Type:
    Coastal Heath - dry areas
  • Species List:
    Bush food, FI Podberscek, Emu Mt., Kingfisher Bay Resort, Fraser Island, Batianoff 87, TAFE, BHNR
Cultural Notes

Small fruits eaten.

Identification Notes

Flowers born in leaf axils unlike the similar Styphelia leptospermoides which has flowers born on short spikes. Leaves have rounded tips, widest at upper part of leaf, green above and much lighter below. Margins recurved.|Stem reddish and covered with white hairs.