Common Correa - native (Correa reflexa var reflexa)

Family: Rutaceae.

Native.

Occurrence: Widespread in the heathy dry forests. It is seldom abundant.

Identify by:

• it has large green, pendant bell-shaped flowers
• leaves are sparsely bristly
• the flowers are clasped between two leaf-like bracts
• it is a small open shrub or shrublet.

All of the local correa flowers that I have seen are green. Elsewhere e.g. the Bendigo Whipstick, red flowered forms are found.

Rock Correa (Correa glabra) usually grows on granite. Its leaves are smooth and hairless, and it grows to a dense shrub.

Name. Correa: after Correa de Serra, 1750-1823, a Portuguese statesman and botanist.