![]() ![]() The fruit is a woody capsule that is formed inside the persistent calyx, in late summer to winter (from March to June), splitting to release numerous, small seeds. They are 2-lipped, strongly pouched with a slit-like mouth, white with reddish to yellowish streaks in the throat, in few-flowered, branching, axillary sprays, in summer (November to April). The flowers resemble a sea shell, hence its common name. ![]() The undersurface is a paler green, finely hairy or woolly, with net-veining very prominent and noticeable. ![]() The upper surface is shallowly wrinkled, with or without fine hairs. The bark is brown and the leaves, arranged in whorls of three, are lanceolate to oblong, with a long leaf base and the apex narrowly tapering. A scrambling, bushy shrub or small tree that grows about 3 m tall, but can reach 6–10 m high. ![]()
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