Stony Range RBG FloraBanksia serrata Bird’s Nest Fern Boronia mollis x fraseri Broad-leaved Drumsticks Cabbage Tree Palm Cyathea australis Flame Pea Flannel Flower Fuchsia Heath Native Violet Pink Rock Orchid Pittosporum revolutum Staghorn

Fuchsia Heath (Epacris longiflora), also commonly known as cigarette flower is endemic to eastern Australia.

Fuchsia Heath (Epacris longiflora), Stony Range Regional Botanic Garden, Dee Why NSW
Fuchsia Heath (Epacris longiflora), Stony Range Regional Botanic Garden, Dee Why NSW

It is an erect to spreading shrub, with egg-shaped, pointed leaves and red tube-shaped flowers, from which it gets the name longiflora. Its native range extends from the central coast of New South Wales to southern Queensland.


  • Scientific classification
  • Kingdom: Plantae
  • Phylum: Charophyta
  • Class: Equisetopsida
  • Subclass: Magnoliidae
  • Superorder: Asteranae
  • Order: Ericales
  • Family: Ericaceae
  • Genus: Epacris
  • Species: Epacris longiflora

Footnote & References

  1. Epacris longiflora Cav., Fuchsia Heath, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2893800

Stony Range RBG FloraBanksia serrata Bird’s Nest Fern Boronia mollis x fraseri Broad-leaved Drumsticks Cabbage Tree Palm Cyathea australis Flame Pea Flannel Flower Fuchsia Heath Native Violet Pink Rock Orchid Pittosporum revolutum Staghorn

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