Acrotriche aggregata, commonly known as red cluster heath, tall acrotriche or tall groundberry[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect, spreading shrub, with elliptic to egg-shaped leaves, and spikes of tube-shaped, pale green, cream-coloured or white flowers, and succulent red drupes.
Acrotriche aggregata is an erect, spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of about, sometimes to or more. The leaves are elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long, wide and white with many veins on the lower surface. The flowers are arranged in spikes of 5 to 10 with bracteoles long at the base of the sepals. The sepals are long, and the petals are joined at the base to form a pale green, cream-coloured or white tube,, with lobes long. Flowering occurs from September to October and the fruit is a red, flattened spherical drupe in diameter.[2]
Acrotriche aggregata was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen.[3] [4] The specific epithet (aggregata) means "clustered" or "grouped".[5]
Red cluster heath grows in forest and rainforest from Daintree National Park in Queensland to Yerranderie in New South Wales.[1] [6]