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Acrotriche halmaturina

Acrotriche halmaturina
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0

Acrotriche halmaturina, the Kangaroo Island ground-berry, is a low ground-hugging shrub of the heath family from Kangaroo Island, South Australia. It is a wild plant of poor soils and is not a common garden subject, so care advice is general.

Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Water sparingly once established; let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining, low-fertility sandy or peaty mix.
Temperature
10–25 °C; protect from hard frost and heat above 35 °C.
How easy
Hard
Native range
South Australia (Kangaroo I.)
Climate
subtropical

About

Acrotriche halmaturina, commonly known as Kangaroo Island ground-berry, is a flowering plant in the family Ericaceae. It is a shrub with egg-shaped leaves, curved flowers near ground level with tube-shaped petals, and spherical fruit.

Where it grows

Kangaroo Island ground-berry grows in poor soils on Flinders Chase on Kangaroo Island in South Australia.

Other Acrotriche plants

Prickly Honey Pots · Ground Berry · Acrotriche baileyana · Coast Ground Berry · Australian Native Currant · Acrotriche divaricata · Acrotriche dura · Mount Lofty Ground Berry · Acrotriche lancifolia · Tall Acrotriche · Acrotriche orbicularis · Acrotriche parviflora

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acrotriche halmaturina by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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