About Pimelea drupacea Labill.
Pimelea drupacea Labill., commonly known as cherry rice-flower, is a shrub that typically reaches a height of 1 to 3 meters (3 feet 3 inches to 9 feet 10 inches). Its young stems are covered in short hairs. The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, have an elliptic to narrowly elliptic shape, measure 5 to 70 millimeters long and 2 to 14.5 millimeters wide, and grow on a short petiole. The species produces white flowers, which are borne in head-like clusters of 4 to 12. These clusters are surrounded by two or four leaves that are 4.5 to 39 millimeters long, and each individual flower grows on a densely hairy pedicel. The floral tube is 4.5 to 5.5 millimeters long, the sepals are 1.8 to 3.5 millimeters long, and the fruit is red and succulent. Multiple different flowering times have been reported for this species: August to October, mainly September to January, or late spring. Cherry rice-flower grows in moist, shady valleys. It occurs on Wilsons Promontory in Victoria, and is widespread and common across Tasmania, including on King Island.
