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Singular flowers with dark red hairy sepals, pinkish white petals, each leaflet having 3 spiked stipules at the base of the leaf stem. Prickles on branches are flexible and soft, more like stiff hairs than thorns. Found on green diamond land off Murray rd

Tiny plant with red and green leaves only a couple of mm long. Tiny flowers have 3 petals and what looks like 3 red anthers.

The AI really wants to call this Koenigia. This plant matches the description of K. islandica pretty well in the St. P guide, but that plant is supposed to grow in wet mud, not on the rocky tops of ridges.

Oak associated. Pores blue-ing blue and resolving to brown after 30 minutes. Very little staining in the flesh upon cross-section. A slight scent of bullion. White basal mycelium. No discernible taste.