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Babingtonia urbana, coastal plain babingtonia, is a small shrub of the myrtle family, native to south-western Western Australia, where it grows in wetlands on the Swan Coastal Plain. It is grown mainly as a garden shrub in mild climates with well-drained, moist soil and full sun.
Babingtonia urbana, commonly known as coastal plain babingtonia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a shrub with linear leaves and white or pale pink flowers usually arranged singly in leaf axils, each flower with 16 to 20 stamens in a circle.
This species grows in wetland mainly between Badgingarra National Park and Mundijong in the Swan Coastal Plain bioregion of south-western Western Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Babingtonia urbana 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.
