Plants of the Castlemaine District
Dwarf Rice-flower- native (Pimelea humilis)
Family: Thymelaeaceae.
Native.
Occurrence: Scattered.
Identification:
- it a small sub-shrub
- it has clusters of white tube-flowers
- the lobes on the petals are about the size and colour of rice grains
- the stalks below the flowers are silky-hairy
- it flowers in late spring.
Photos: 1. Metcalfe. 2: Mt Tarrengower. 3: Brisbane Ranges.
4: The silky-hairy flower stalk. This photo: Max Schlachter.