turkey bush
- Scientific Name
- Calytrix exstipulata
- Category
- Plants
Wood for clap sticks (kun-bilngmurrung); prongs of an-danj spears; heads of bokko, belbban and marrkidjba spears; peg of borndok spearthrowers (kun-keb).
Small branches used as tinder for lighting fires during kudjewk.
Preferred firewood (kun-rerrng) in kudjewk and in stone ovens (kun-kerri).
Erect bushy shrub mostly to 2 metres high. Leaves very small, scale-like, crowded and overlapping along the branchlets, linear, triangular in cross section, blade 1-3.5 mm long x 0.25-1mm wide. Flowers pink to purplish, star like, to 25 mm diameter, singular or in clusters at the ends of branchlets. Fruit a very small nut fully enclosed in the old flower tube. Found in lowland and sandstone country, common understorey plant in open woodland and forest, rocky slopes, exposed and disturbed areas.
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