Per the Australian Cultivar Registration Authority:
"Origin: Kangaroo Island SA. Thought to be a natural hybrid of Correa reflexa ...Read Moreand C. decumbens although there is a suggestion that C. backhouseana var. orbicularis may be another parent. The name derives as an adaptation of the names of the presumed parent species. Also sold by members of the Australian Native Plant Society as C. ‘Dancing Lipsticks’.
Distinctive Characters: C. ‘Redex’ is a narrow, upright shrub which has very distinctly different form and foliage from either presumed parent species. Leaves are ovate, dark green and appear to be glabrous. C. reflexa is generally an open spreading shrub to >2m with pale green and hairy leaves and C. decumbens usually prostrate or procumbent with pale green glabrous leaves.
C. ‘Redex’ has a long flowering season from late winter through to early autumn depending on the district and climatic conditions while C. decumbens is summer flowering and C. reflexa generally flowers during winter and spring.
Per the Australian Cultivar Registration Authority:
"Origin: Kangaroo Island SA. Thought to be a natural hybrid of Correa reflexa ...Read More