- Pronunciation: back-HOWS-ee-ah mer-tee-FOAL-ee-ah
- Common Name: Carrol, Grey Myrtle, Cinnamon Myrtle
- Type: Shrub Tree
- Family: MYRTACEAE
- Size: to 15 metres
- Flowers: White with persistent larger yellowish green Calyx. Spring, summer.
- Fruit: Fruits enclosed in persistent Hypanthium.
- Vegetation Type: Wet Eucalypt Forest. Alluvial soils along stream sides. Understorey in light Rainforest.
- Species List: Hedges, Bush food, Craft, FI Podberscek, Wooroi Day Use Area Tracks, Old Tewantin, Tewantin Forest Gyndier, Fraser Island, NNP Viewland/Brunjes, Upper Yandina Creek, Kin Kin Scrub, Heritage Park, RE 12.2.3. RE 12.9-10.16. RE 12.9-10.16x1.
Cultural Notes
TAKE CARE! Some information about bush foods and medicines may be anecdotal. Correct identification and preparation is essential:
Fine grained hard tough timber limited use for tool handles fishing rods and bows
Bush Food: Leaves can be substituted for bay Leaves. Leaves can be dried, crushed and used for flavouring.
Identification Notes
Sepals 2 to 3 times as long as wide, Acute, all similar in size.
Landscaping Notes
Noosa Council Preferred Species list. Good ornamental Shrub. Useful windbreak or hedge. Sunny or part-shaded. Average conditions.
Indoor pot Plant potential.
Propagation is from Seed, which can be sown with the spent Flower still intact; and from cuttings, which are easy. It grows in sun or semi-shade and is tolerant of a range of conditions provided it is not allowed to dry out.
Useful screen.
Successfully propagated by Tin Can Bay City Farm Nursery.
Associated Fauna
Nectar feeding butterflies
