The Mountain Christmas Bell grows on rock ledges and in open forest. The flowers are a beautiful bell shape, red at the top with yellow lobes. The leaves are wider than other Christmas Bell species. The flexible leaves usually lean downhill.
The Mountain Christmas Bell is quite rare & only found in a few location in the upper Blue Mountains & in an isolated population at Mt Kembla near Wollongong.
The Mountain Christmas Bell flowers in summer. Usually only a few plants flower at a time. After a bush fire large numbers will flower.
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Family: | Blandfordiaceae |
Genus: | Blandfordia |
Species: | cunninghamii |
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