Lithomyrtus obtusa or the Beach Myrtella is an attractive coastal bush typically found in sandy coastal woodland just behind the strandline vegetation. The leaves are opposite like most members of the Myrtle family and also clothed in dense white or brownish hairs. This shrub flowers at 1m with attractive pink blossoms and and would certainly make for a fabulous ornamental plant. There is nothing else quite like it so it can definitely be recognized with ease, even in the absence of flowers. Older botanists might recognize this plant as Myrtella obtusa.

According to Yirrganydji elder George Skeene, the fruits of this plant is edible and aborigines of the region had a name for the plant which meant ‘snake bush’ due to the frequent incidents of finding snakes associated with the shrub. Aborigines also used the stems of the plant as a broom.