In coastal areas spreading bushes of White Correa, Correa alba var. alba, are displaying their white flowers with four spreading petals.
![White Correa](https://angair.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/White-Correa.jpg)
White Correa
In our heathlands look out for bushes with the inhospitable yellowish-green spiky foliage of Prickly Geebung, Persoonia juniperina, as it may be hiding small tubular yellow flowers with unusual outward curling petals.
![pricklygeebung](https://angair.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/pricklygeebung.jpg)
Prickly Geebung
On the Angair nature ramble in March I thought I saw interesting ‘seed-pods,’ which I had not seen before, on some shrubs of Common Heath, Epacris impressa. A closer look revealed that they were actually dried-up flowers, which had clearly not survived the dry conditions.
![Dried heath flowers](https://angair.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Dried-heath-flowers.jpg)
Dried Common Heath flowers
Since then, I have seen other plants with lovely fresh tubular flowers.
![Common Heath](https://angair.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/redheath.jpg)
Common Heath
We are so fortunate to be able to find individual specimens in flower all year somewhere in our district, and in a range of colours, from white to dark pink. The pale pink form is the flora emblem of Victoria.
Ellinor Campbell