With ant pollinator

Mallee to 3m high; bark smooth, grey, shedding in ribbons.

Spot flowering. Usual flowering said to be around April-May,

ROTAP 2RCa. Rare. Restricted but locally frequent, in mallee heath skeletal sandy soil on sandstone;. Confined to the central Blue Mountains.

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Slender erect shrub, 40–150 cm high; stems with inconspicuous leaf scars; branchlets woolly. Flowering mainly January to May.

Grows in scrub, heath and dry sclerophyll forest on sandy soils; coast and tablelands

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Tags:   Blue Mountains Cliff Top Track Echo Point Epacris pulchella Ericaceae Katoomba Wallum Heath native plants pink summer white

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Is this Lurline Falls, Katoomba?

Powerhouse Museum Collection
Lurline Falls, Katoomba (attributed circa 1898)
Glass plate negative, full plate, 'Lurline Falls, Katoomba', Kerry and Co, Sydney, Australia, c. 1884-1917. View here:
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The best authority on place names in the Blue Mountains, the Blue Mountains Geographical Dictionary, has no entry for a waterfall of this name in Katoomba. The sole entry for Lurline Falls places it in Leura, as an early name for what is known today as Leura Falls, also once known as Second Falls.

The name 'Lurline' is attributed to Frederick Clissold (1831-1892) who purchased an area of land he named 'Lurline' after a pastoral property of the same name in Springsure, Queensland. A description of Lurline Falls appeared in The Pictorial Guide to the Blue Mountains, by J. Russell, 1882, and in The Railway Guide of NSW, 1884.

The photograph in the Powerhouse Museum collection, described as Lurline Falls, Katoomba, is not Leura Falls.

If the photograph was taken in Katoomba, then one possible location is on Katoomba Falls Creek, adjacent to Katoomba Falls Reserve. This innocuous cascade is barely 1m high and does not meet the definition of a waterfall. Vegetation has changed and the creek bed is likely to have been excavated for the installation of the modern culvert on Cliff Drive. There is still an angled tree at this location.

Just to complicate matters, Frederick Clissold was the first land developer in the area and named properties he purchased after localities associated with his business interests. He is said to have named Leura Falls in early 1881, after the pastoral property 'Leura' in central Queensland. The name 'Lurline' is associated with Katoomba (Lurline St., and Lurline Park, now Hinkler Park). Would Clissold have assigned different names to the same waterfall in Leura? Perhaps Lurline Falls was located in Katoomba after all. Even if that were the case, it seems unlikely that the 'cascade' pictured in the Powerhouse Museum collection would have earned such a title.

Portrait orientation: flic.kr/p/Ba68Ng

Tags:   Blue Mountains Katoomba cascades creek moving water Lurline Falls Katoomba Falls Creek

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Erect shrub 1-3m tall. Stems with dense long brownish hairs. Leaves 25-40mm long with hairy midrib on the upper surface. Flowering August-September. Occurs Central Coast NSW and inland to the Blue Mountains.

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Habit: flic.kr/p/NzbPCC
Leaf underside: flic.kr/p/27WPyeE

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Erect shrub 1-3m tall. Stems with dense long brownish spreading hairs. Leaves 25-40mm long with hairy midrib on the upper surface. Flowering August-September. Occurs Central Coast NSW and inland to the Blue Mountains.

Habit: flic.kr/p/NzbPCC
Flower and leaf closeup: flic.kr/p/2aGJpFD

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