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Toolinna Adenanthos

Adenanthos eyrei

Adenanthos eyrei is a rare, erect shrub from the Protea family, known only from a single cliff-top dune system on the remote south coast of Western Australia. It is essentially unknown in cultivation and is not a practical garden plant.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Adapted to dry coastal dunes; water sparingly and only during establishment, as with other Western Australian proteas.
Soil
Deep, free-draining siliceous (sandy) soil, low in phosphorus.
Temperature
Mild coastal conditions; cold tolerance unknown, so protect from hard frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
S. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Adenanthos eyrei is a species of shrub in the family Proteaceae. Restricted to a single cliff-top dune system on the remote south coast of Western Australia, it is listed as rare and endangered. It was discovered by E. Charles Nelson in 1973, and formally described and named in 1978.

How to grow it

Adenanthos eyrei is utterly unknown in cultivation, and probably has no horticultural potential.

Where it grows

This species is known only from a single population growing on a cliff-top dune system about 200 m (660 ft) east of Toolinna Cove, on the coastal margin of the Nullarbor Plain in southern Western Australia. Even at that locality it is very rare: monitoring suggests a stable population of between 200 and 250 individual plants. It grows on dunes of deep siliceous sand, amongst low open scrub, sandheath or kwongan. Associated species include A. forrestii, A. cuneatus, Banksia epica and B. media.

Other Adenanthos plants

Adenanthos acanthophyllus · Adenanthos apiculatus · Adenanthos argyreus · Hairy Jugflower · Adenanthos cacomorphus · Bridlebush · Adenanthos cunninghamii · Common Woollybush · Scott River Jugflower · Fitzgerald Woollybush · Adenanthos dobsonii · Adenanthos drummondii

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Adenanthos eyrei 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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