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Prostrate broom - Carmichaelia appressa

Featured plant foreground, background plant is Muehlenbeckia complexa.

Photographed at it's only location in New Zealand and the world, Kaitorete Spit, Canterbury.

Endemic to the gravelly sandy loam, stabilised sand dunes, and ridges of sand developed along the Kaitorete Spit.

Prostrate, densely branched shrub. Tiny white and purple flowers, scented.

 

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Uploaded on February 17, 2013
Taken on February 17, 2013