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Scientific Name
Pimelea drupacea
Family Name
THYMELAEACEAE
Common Name
Cherry Rice-flower
Status
Height
3.0m (300cm)
Flowers
White or pale cream, to about 0.6cm in terminal heads in upper axils, sometimes profuse.
Fruit
Berries or drupes
Form
Straggling shrub, with slender, silky-hairy branches.
Municipalities
Break O'Day; Burnie; Central Coast; Central Highlands; Circular Head; Derwent Valley; Devonport; Dorset; Flinders Island; Georgetown; Glamorgan-Spring Bay; Glenorchy; Hobart; Huon Valley; Kentish; King Island; Kingborough; Latrobe; Launceston; Meander Valley; Northern Midlands; Sorell; Southern Midlands; Tasman; Waratah-Wynyard; West Coast; West Tamar
Communities
Rainforest; Wet Eucalypt Forest
Habitat Notes
Widespread and fairly frequent in wet forests.
Site Tolerance
Moist; Shady
Frost Tolerance
Hardy
Soil Tolerance
Clay; Fertile; Loam; Phosphorous intolerant; Well-drained
General Notes
Resistant to Phytophthora cinnamomi. Hardy to most frosts and withstands extended dry periods. Likes free draining acidic soils and a sunny to somewhat shaded site. 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 a drupe, (poisonous) usually black, may be red.seed releases very quickly once ripe,. slightly immature fruit can be harvested and allowed to mature in a warm position. rub on wire screens to remove outer coverings
Seed Treatment Method
Seed Storage Life
Viable Seeds Per Gram
Seed Treatment Notes
Difficult to grow from seed.
Germination Time
Suitable for Direct Seeding
Cuttings
Expected Time to Take Root
Expected Time to Plant Out
Propagation by Division
N.B. Transplant only from nearby to avoid disease.
No
Cutting Notes
Propagate from cuttings of baely firm young growth. Care should be taken not to strip back the young bark.
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