Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection
- Herbarium
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- Accession
- K000355721
- Filed as
- Epacris impressa var. ovata Benth.
- Det. by
- Tonkin, J.E.
- Collected
- Gunn, R.C. 1838-10-04
- Origin
- AU
- The sheet
- View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)
A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.
Native range 4 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| New South Wales | NSW | AUSTRALASIA |
| South Australia | SOA | |
| Tasmania | TAS | |
| Victoria | VIC |
Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.
Flowering 1,446 in flower of 1,544 examined
Peak flowering in Sep. Each bar is the share of Epacris impressa observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 1,446 of 1,544 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.
Where it actually grows measured, from 1,992 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | 2.3 °C | 5.4 °C | 9.4 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 17.8 °C | 24.2 °C | 25.9 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 639 mm | 831 mm | 1,146 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 75 mm | 155 mm | 207 mm |
It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,992 research-grade observations of Epacris impressa that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.
This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.
Named cultivars 41 recorded
Selections of Epacris impressa that somebody named and propagated. A cultivar is not a botanical taxon: it is governed by the cultivated-plant code rather than the botanical one, so it appears in no taxonomic backbone, and it has no native range and no wild population of its own. These get no page here, because a cultivar has no photographs, no range and no flowering data of its own, and a page with none of those is not a page.
- ‘Alba Odorata’ Q104182290
- ‘Anglesea’ Q104182291
- ‘Bega’ Q104182292
- ‘Bushy Pink’ Q104182294
- ‘Butterfly’ Q104182295
- ‘Campanulata’ Q104182297
- ‘Candidissima’ Q104182298
- ‘Ceraeflorus’ Q104182299
- ‘Coccinea’ Q104182300
- ‘Cranbourne Bells’ Q104182301
- ‘Deep Bushy Pink’ Q104182302
- ‘Diadem’ Q104182303
- ‘Double Flowered Form’ Q104182304
- ‘Fireball’ Q104182305
- ‘Fulgens’ Q104182307
- ‘Her Majesty’ Q104182309
- ‘Hyacinthiflora’ Q104182310
- ‘Ignea’ Q104182311
- ‘Lady Alice Peel’ Q104182312
- ‘Lady Panmure’ Q104182313
- ‘Lowi’ Q104182314
- ‘Model’ Q104182317
- ‘Mont Blanc’ Q104182318
- ‘Mrs Pym’ Q104182319
- ‘Nivalis’ Q104182327
- ‘Portland Pink’ Q104182336
- ‘Portland Red’ Q104182343
- ‘Princess Beatrice’ Q104182350
- ‘Queen Victoria’ Q104182359
- ‘Rose Perfection’ Q104182370
- ‘Rosea’ Q104182380
- ‘Rubella’ Q104182388
- ‘Spring Pink’ Q104182399
- ‘Sunset’ Q104182407
- ‘The Bride’ Q104182416
- ‘The Premier’ Q104182427
- ‘Thurra River’ Q104182436
- ‘Ardentissima’ Q104182443
- ‘Vesta’ Q104182451
- ‘Vesuvius’ Q104182460
- ‘Viscountess Hill’ Q104182467
From Wikidata (CC0), joined to this species on its World Flora Online identifier, so the link to the parent is exact rather than a name match. This list is what is recorded in an openly licensed register; it is not every cultivar that exists, and for many genera it is not close. Why, and how far short it falls.
Also published as 53 synonyms
A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.
- Epacris campanulata Lodd. ex DC.
- Epacris campanulata var. alba Lodd. ex DC.
- Epacris campanulata var. maxima Paxton
- Epacris campanulata var. rosea E.Otto
- Epacris campanulata var. rubra E.Otto
- Epacris ceriflora Graham
- Epacris impressa f. ceriflora (Graham) Siebert & Voss
- Epacris impressa f. diemenica Gand.
- Epacris impressa f. grandiflora (Benth.) Siebert & Voss
- Epacris impressa f. lucida Gand.
- Epacris impressa f. milliganii Gand.
- Epacris impressa f. nivalis Siebert & Voss
- Epacris impressa f. ruscifolia (R.Br.) Siebert & Voss
- Epacris impressa var. alborosea A.Dietr.
- Epacris impressa var. breviflora A.Dietr.
- Epacris impressa var. campanulata (Lodd. ex DC.) Hook.f.
- Epacris impressa var. ceriflora (Graham) Rodway
- Epacris impressa var. deckeri A.Dietr.
- Epacris impressa var. delicatula A.Dietr.
- Epacris impressa var. dissitiflora A.Dietr.
- Epacris impressa var. eximia A.Dietr.
- Epacris impressa var. glaucescens Maund
- Epacris impressa var. grandiflora Benth.
- Epacris impressa var. leucantha A.Dietr.
and 29 more.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.