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Babingtonia delicata is a small, slender shrub from south-western Western Australia, growing 30 to 80 cm tall with bright pink flowers. It is rarely grown, and the key to cultivating it is to mimic its native sandy, seasonally wet, well-drained conditions.
Babingtonia delicata is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to a small area in the southwest of Western Australia. It is a slender shrub with erect stems, linear leaves and bright pink flowers in groups of up to three, each flower with 4 to 8 stamens.
This species mostly grows in sandy soils in low-lying, winter-wet areas near Cataby, in the Geraldton Sandplains and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.
Camphor Myrtle · Babingtonia cherticola · 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 delicata 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.
