Kunzea Badja Carpet

White flowers like a leptospermum but long anthers so looks like a small bottlebrush.

Kunzea badja carpet. Kunzea badja carpet is a cultivar of kunzea badjaensis it is a low growing shrub of the family myrtaceae found in the southeastern tablelands of new south wales australia it is similar to kunzea capitata but it has a lower growth form and white rather than pink flowers. Good drainage zone 8. Tip pruning will improve foliage density. Small clusters of white flowers are carried on the ends of branches.

A shrub very rare in this country we might be the first to introduce this and one we are pretty excited about. Cultivar received by the authority 17 november 1977. Kunzea badja carpet a trailing or prostrate shrub is an excellent ground cover ideally suited to canberra s climate and soil conditions it grows naturally on big badja hill north east of cooma new south wales and may be a species not yet scientifically assessed. Kunzeas are one of the genera in the prominent australian plant family myrtaceae.

The dark green leaves are small and aromatic. New stems are dark red. Kunzea badja carpet. This has some pretty good cold tolerance and will be an evergreen shrub to 2 high and wider.

Fluffy white flowers in early summer. Because of these differences it has been described as a distinct species. The species had previously been known as kunzea. Early summer is the main flowering period when plants become covered in blooms.

Kunzea badja carpet is a naturally occuring form of a species from mount badja in s e new south wales. A trailing or prostrate shrub is an excellent ground cover. The species has some affinity tokunzea capitata and was brought into cultivation at the australian national botanic gardens canberra in 1974.