Agonis flexuosa

Agonis flexuosa
Flowers
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Agonis
Species:
A. flexuosa
Binomial name
Agonis flexuosa
Synonyms[1]
List
In Peppermint Grove parkland
Bark

Agonis flexuosa, commonly known as peppermint,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. The Noongar peoples know the tree as wanil, wonnow, wonong[3] or wannang.[4] It is a tree or shrub with pendulous, very narrowly elliptic, narrowly elliptic or narrowly egg-shaped leaves, white flowers with 20 to 25 stamens opposite the sepals and broadly top-shaped to broadly cup-shaped capsules.

  1. ^ a b "Agonis flexuosa". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  2. ^ "Agonis flexuosa". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  3. ^ "Noongar names for plants". kippleonline.net. Archived from the original on 2016-11-20. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
  4. ^ "Plants of the Denmark walk trails: Traditional Noongar Names and Uses". Green skills Inc. Archived from the original on 12 July 2017. Retrieved 29 May 2017.

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