Dasypogonaceae

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Blue Tinsel Lily

Classification: Dasypogonaceae - Calectasia - grandiflora

Brilliant metallic purple flowers are a feature of this straggling low shrub. The stems are tangled and covered with small sharply pointed leaves. Growing in heath on white sand.

Updated: 19 Dec 2014

Kingia

Classification: Dasypogonaceae - Kingia - australis

Not a grasstree, although Kingia does look like one, especially when not in flower. Kingia has a thick trunk made up of accumulated leaf bases. The trunk is usually (but not always) unbranched.

Updated: 17 Aug 2014

Tinsel Lily

Classification: Dasypogonaceae - Calectasia - intermedia

Upright stems to 60cm, leaves elongated and pointed. Flowers bright metallic purple with 6 sepals.

Updated: 03 Apr 2014

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