Family Index

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Scientific Name

Leptomeria glomerata

Family Name

SANTALACEAE

Common Name

Creeping Currantbush

Status

Height

30cm

Flowers

White or pinkish, 3mm in diameter, hermaphrodite. Sometimes arranged in a spike, sometimes in clusters.

Fruit

Berries or drupes

Form

Small shrub with rigid, coarse branches; leaves reduced to tiny scales.

Municipalities

Burnie; Central Highlands; Derwent Valley; Huon Valley; Kentish; Kingborough; Latrobe; Meander Valley; Northern Midlands; Tasman; Waratah-Wynyard; West Coast; West Tamar

Communities

Habitat Notes

Occasional near the coast in the S and W, and in peaty moors on the Central Plateau.

Site Tolerance

Frost Tolerance

Soil Tolerance

General Notes

Very difficult to grow from seed, soaking in a giberellic acid solution may improve results. Plants are semi-parasitic, but will grow for without a host, as long as they are planted out within a year. Host plants include eucalypts, acacias and native grasses. Suitable below powerlines.

Propagation Details

Propagation Calendar

Flowering Months

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Seed Collecting Months

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Sowing Months

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Cutting Months

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Seed Information

Seed Collection

Fruit often red, about 4mm long.

Seed Treatment Method

Seed Storage Life

Viable Seeds Per Gram

Seed Treatment Notes

Germination Time

Suitable for Direct Seeding

Cuttings

Expected Time to Take Root

Expected Time to Plant Out

Late autumn to winter

Propagation by Division N.B. Transplant only from nearby to avoid disease.

Cutting Notes