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Babingtonia grandiflora
Babingtonia grandiflora is a shrub from the Myrtle family native to the coastal southwest of Western Australia, grown mainly as a heathland or garden plant. It thrives in full sun and well-drained, gravelly or sandy soil.
Babingtonia grandiflora, commonly known as the large flowered babingtonia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae. It is a common heathland shrub endemic to the coastal southwest of Western Australia. It is a shrub with erect or arching stems, linear leaves and white or pale pink flowers usually arranged singly in leaf axils, each flower with 11 to 25 stamens. Babingtonia grandiflora flowers from August to December.
Babingtonia grandiflora often occurs on plains, or on undulating hills and breakaways in the rocky hillsides, or outcrops from near Northampton to Boonanarring Nature Reserve in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and the Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia where it grows on gravelly loamy and sandy soils over laterite.
Camphor Myrtle · Babingtonia cherticola · Babingtonia delicata · Babingtonia erecta · Babingtonia fascifolia · Babingtonia maleyae · Babingtonia minutifolia · Pelloe's Babingtonia · Babingtonia triandra · Babingtonia urbana · Australian Heath Myrtle And Allies
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Babingtonia grandiflora 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.
