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Adenanthos glabrescens

Adenanthos glabrescens
Photo: Melburnian, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Adenanthos glabrescens is a species of small shrub endemic to the Ravensthorpe area in southwest Western Australia. First published in 1978, there are two subspecies.

How to grow it

The species is in cultivation at the Australian National Botanic Gardens, but is otherwise little known to gardeners. It probably has little potential as a garden plant, though may be of use in rockery gardens.

Where it grows

Adenanthos glabrescens occurs only around Ravensthorpe in southwest Western Australia. It is known from populations are and south of Lake King, in the Fitzgerald River area, and east of Ravensthorpe. It grows in deep sand and gravelly sand, amongst scrub.

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 glabrescens by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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