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Baeckea crassifolia
Also called Desert Baeckea
Rinzia orientalis, known as desert heath-myrtle, is a small native Australian shrub of the myrtle family, typically 20 to 75 cm tall, with white or pale pink flowers. The species is grown mainly by enthusiasts and native-plant nurseries, and the key to growing it is sharp drainage and full sun, as it naturally grows in dry sandy soils.
Rinzia orientalis, commonly known as desert heath-myrtle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a shrub with elliptic to narrowly oblong leaves and white or pale pink flowers usually with ten stamens.
Desert myrtle-heath grows in mallee scrub on sand dunes and sandplains from the Eyre Peninsula and Kangaroo Island in South Australia to south-western New South Wales and to near Ballarat in Victoria.
Desert Rock Myrtle · Rinzia affinis · Rinzia carnosa · Rinzia communis · Rinzia crassifolia · Rinzia dimorphandra · Rinzia fimbriolata · Rinzia fumana · Rinzia icosandra · Rinzia longifolia · Rinzia medifila · Rinzia oxycoccoides
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rinzia orientalis 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.
