''Gaultheria appressa'', the waxberry or white waxberry, is a shrub in the family Ericaceae. The species is endemic to

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. It has an erect or spreading habit, growing to between high, and has reddish brown hairs on its stems. Leaves are long and wide with small teeth along the edges. Flowers appear in groups of three to eleven in racemes in late spring to summer. The sepals become fleshy, white and enlarged during fruit formation. The fruits are between in diameter. The species occurs in woodland, forest, subalpine scrub and rainforest margins in

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and Victoria. In the Greater Sydney region it is recorded in areas with an altitude of between and with an annual rainfall of .

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