Correa glabra

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The flowers are pendent and usually arranged singly on short side shoots on a pedicel 2–4 mm long with linear to lance-shaped bracteoles 4–7 mm long
The calyx is 3–10 mm long and the corolla is pale green to pale yellow, cylindrical to funnel-shaped and 15–40 mm long
The eight stamens extend well beyond the end of the corolla
Flowering occurs sporadically throughout the year but mainly in autumn and winter

Fruit:

Leaves:

The leaves are elliptical to sometimes egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, papery to leathery
10–40 mm long and 5–17 mm wide
A strong, sweet lemon scent when crushed

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Habitat:

Distribution:

Endemic to Australia
Rock correa is found in south-eastern Queensland, NSW, western Victoria and westwards to the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia
- Variety glabra is found in south-eastern Queensland, New South Wales and central and western Victoria where it mainly grows in rocky habitats near watercourses
- Variety leucoclada, commonly known as the white-stemmed smooth correa, grows in hilly situations along stream banks in the southern Mount Lofty Ranges and in central and eastern NSW; it is rare in South Australia but common in NSW
- Variety turnbullii, commonly known as Turnbull's smooth correa, grows in the rocky hills of the Mount Lofty and Flinders Ranges, the Murraylands and part of the south-east of South Australia

Species:

Three varieties are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:
- Correa glabra Lindl. var. glabra, has leaves that are more or less glabrous, a hemispherical calyx and pale green or yellow flowers
- Correa glabra var. leucoclada has leaves that are densely woolly hairy on the lower surface, a cup-shaped to shortly cylindrical calyx and pale green or yellow flowers
- Correa glabra var. turnbullii has red flowers with green lobes
- Variety turnbullii was originally described by Edwin Ashby who gave it the name Correa turnbullii but Paul G. Wilson reduced it to a variety of C. glabra in 1998; Wilson considered C. schlechtendalii of Behr to be a synonym of var. turnbullii

Additional notes:

Taxonomy
Correa glabra was first formally described in 1838 by botanist John Lindley in Thomas Mitchell's journal, Three Expeditions into the interior of Eastern Australia
Use in horticulture
- May be used as a low screening shrub or as a container plant, and will attract birds to a garden
- It will grow in a variety of soil types in sunny or partially shaded situations and withstands frost
- It can be maintained to a compact shape by pinching back new growth
- A number of cultivars have been recorded, including:
  - Corea glabra var. glabra 'Coliban River' — a compact, dense form selected from a wild population near the Coliban River in Kyneton, Victoria.; it grows to 1.2 m in height and width
  - C. glabra 'Apricot'
  - C. glabra var. turnbullii '
  - C. glabra 'Gold Leaf'
  - C. glabra var. turnbullii 'Ian Fardon'
  - C. glabra var. glabra 'Inglewood Gold' — a form with gold flowers selected from a wild population near Inglewood, Victoria around 1980
  - C. glabra 'Studley Park'
  - C. glabra var. leucoclada 'Tambar Springs'