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stamp: Calytrix carinata
Date of issue: 4 June 2002
Designer: Wayne Rankin, Swish Group
Printer:: McPhersons
Size: 30 x 25 mm

Plant: Calytrix carinata

Family: MYRTACEAE

Desert Star Flower
With spectacular pink or purple flowers this
shrub grows up to 3m high and flowers from
March to October. Its found on red sand or gravelly
rust-coloured clay.


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