Botanical atlas
Common Regelia
Regelia ciliata
This plant is kept in the atlas for identification and safety, not for use. Read the safety notes below before handling it, and keep it away from children, cats, and food.
Regelia ciliata does not carry a documented history as a medicinal or culinary herb. It belongs to a small, little-known genus of Western Australian shrubs that botanists have long recognized as close cousins of Melaleuca, sharing the same brush-like flower clusters and fine, needle-soft foliage fringed with tiny hairs, which is where the species name ciliata, meaning fringed with eyelashes, comes from. Its real legacy has been as a garden and habitat plant, valued by native plant growers in Western Australia for the way its pink to purple blooms light up sandy heathland and draw in honeyeaters. In the wild it has quietly played its part in supporting the insects and birds of the fragile southwest Australian heath ecosystem, one of the most botanically rich and threatened regions on earth.
Safety.
Regelia ciliata has no documented history of food or medicinal use, so it should not be eaten or used as a home remedy.
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