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Acrotriche orbicularis

Acrotriche orbicularis is a compact, spreading Australian shrub in the heath family, endemic to a small area near Ravensthorpe in south-western Western Australia. It is a low, wild understorey plant rarely cultivated, so its care is inferred from related Acrotriche and Ericaceae species.

Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Part shade, Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; let the top of the soil dry between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining, acidic, sandy or gritty soil with added organic matter.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates mild frost but protect from hard freezes.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acrotriche orbicularis is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to a restricted area near Ravensthorpe in the south-west of Western Australia. It is a compact, spreading shrub, with broadly egg-shaped or broadly elliptic leaves, and green, tube-shaped flowers.

Where it grows

This species is found in the understorey of low woodland on Bandalup Hill east of Ravensthorpe in the Esperance Plains bioregion of south-western Western 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 halmaturina · Acrotriche lancifolia · Tall Acrotriche · Acrotriche parviflora

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acrotriche orbicularis 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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