Pink Apple Berry or Cheeseberry

CYATHODES PARVIFOLIA Mountain Berry - Endemic Tasmania
Small compact shrub to 1 m in wet cold areas up to 1200 m and most frequent in the snow gum woodlands, but extending downwards from there. In May the female plants are densely covered with spherical berries about 6 mm across in varying shades of pink and red. Leaves are about 6 mm, linear-lanceolate, prickly, dark green with fine white stripes underneath. Numerous small cream bell-shaped flowers are borne in the leaf axils; male and female flowers on different plants. Flowering in September-December. Closely related to the similar: Cheeseberry.

Back