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Acrotriche patula
Shiny ground-berry is a rigid, prickly, low shrub from southern Australia that grows on coastal limestone in mallee scrub. It is a hardy native best suited to dry, free-draining sites in a sunny position, and it is mainly of interest to native-plant gardeners.
Acrotriche patula, commonly known as shiny ground-berry is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south of continental Australia. It is a rigid, prickly shrub with egg-shaped or narrowly egg-shaped leaves and small green, tube-shaped flowers and fleshy, red, spherical or oval fruit.
Shiny ground-berry grows on coastal limestone in mallee scrub along the coast of southern Western Australia in the Hampton and Mallee bioregions, but mostly in South Australia, including in the Nullarbor, Eyre Yorke Block and Kangaroo Island bioregions.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acrotriche patula 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.
