Drimys angustifolia
Drimys angustifolia is a species of flowering plant in family Winteraceae. It is a shrub or small tree native to the mountains of southern Brazil.
Description
Drimys angustifolia is an evergreen shrub or small tree, typically growing from 2 to 4, and occasionally to 6, meters tall.Its leaves are narrowly elliptic or oblong to linear-lanceolate, typically 45 to 70 mm long by 8 to 15 mm wide, and occasionally up to 100 mm long and 25 mm wide.
It flowers in January and February. The flowers are small and white, often single, more rarely 2 or 3 on short peduncles of 1–3 mm, with linear lanceolate petals 7–9 mm long and with 2–5 carpels.