Long Grass Nature Refuge
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Small tree to 5m, found in dry rainforests, rainforest margins and regrowth areas in Kiama, NSW to Mareeba, NEQ Leaves are simple, alternate, entire or lobed, 6 15cm long, prickly. Flowers are a showy pinkish-white flowers with burgundy throats, Sept - Nov. Fruit is brown, bristly capsules with 5 valves bearing numerous seeds, Oct - March. Fast-growing and showy, prone to insect attack. Shoots and new leaves are edible and the fruit may be made into rosella jam. Seeds and cuttings propagate easily. Fibrous bark used by Aborigines for string and bags. Host to the glittering Jewel beetle.
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