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Babingtonia cherticola is a small erect shrub from south-western Western Australia, growing to about 0.5 to 2 m with slender stems and white or pale pink flowers. It is a wild native of chert hills and sandplains, and is rarely grown in gardens, so care guidance is limited.
Babingtonia cherticola is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with linear leaves and white or pale pink flowers in groups of up to three, each flower with 16 to 26 stamens.
This species mostly grows in a range of habitats between Watheroo National Park and Watheroo on chert hills, and near Badgingarra and Cataby on sandplain or in sand over laterite, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.
Camphor Myrtle · Babingtonia delicata · Babingtonia erecta · Babingtonia fascifolia · Large Flowered Babingtonia · Babingtonia maleyae · Babingtonia minutifolia · Pelloe's Babingtonia · Babingtonia triandra · Babingtonia urbana · Australian Heath Myrtle And Allies
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Babingtonia cherticola 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.
