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Kunzea (Gustav Kunze, 1793-1851, German botanist). Myrtaceae. Australian shrubs, sometimes grown in cool or temperate houses: often heath-like, the small entire lvs. mostly alternate: fls. small with extending stamens, in the upper axils or in terminal heads or in a spike below the end of the branch; calyx with 5 small lobes; petals 5, spreading, small; stamens many, free or in series, the filaments filiform; ovary 2-5-cclled, 2 to many ovules in each cell. The species are 15-20, allied to Callistemon, Leptospermum, and formerly included in Metrosideros. The cult, requirements of Callistemon (p. 630) will probably suit them. K. pomifera, F. Muell., has been mentioned as a fruit-plant (G.C. III. 5:201; copied in A.G. 1889: 127), Mueller saying that it is one of the few really valuable fruit-plants indigenous at the south coast of Austral. "The fruits are of a peculiar acidulous aromatic taste, and very extensively collected by people settled on the coast for the purpose of jam-making." It is described by Bentham as a rigid prostrate shrub: lvs. ovate, varying from nearly orbicular and almost cordate to narrow and acute-based, mostly less than
1/3 in. long: fls. white or yellowish, sessile and not numerous but yet forming dense terminal heads becoming lateral by elongation of the branch; stamens numerous, 3 or 4 times as long as the small petals: berry blue, 1/3 in. or less diam., crowned by the calyx-lobes. Victoria and S. Austral. L.H.B.
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