Dwarf Hop Bush - SA Endemic
Narrow-leaf Hop-bush
Desert Pepperflower
Diplopeltis huegelii
Dodonaea rigida
Hopbush
A sparse shrub growing about 1.5m high and forming a dense roadside colony. Flowers at the ends of branches, each with 4 pale mauve "stalked" petals and 5 sepals.
Widespread across desert areas. Erect shrub, 0.7-2 m high. Sandy soils. Sand dunes, rocky ironstone rises.
Leaves variable, rarely elliptic, 1–25 mm wide, with length:breadth ratio of usually >4:1; capsule 3–4-winged, broad-elliptic to transverse- elliptic in lateral view; body of carpel (excluding
Prostrate to ascending perennial, herb, 0.15-0.4(-0.6) m high, to 4 m wide. Fl. white-pink, Apr to Sep. Sandy or loamy soils. Sandplains, sand dunes, stony flats & hillsides
Dioecious spreading shrub to 1 m. Leaves imparipinnate, 0.9–2.6 cm long excluding petiole, rarely to 4.5 cm; lateral leaflets 2–14, obtriangular, obovate, rarely oblanceolate, entire,
Forget flowers, its the colourful seed pods that look a bit like hops used to flavour beer that make these plants distinctive. Much branched, dense low shrub to 1m high.
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