Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Austrobaeckea uncinella

Baeckea uncinella

Austrobaeckea uncinella is a small shrub from the Myrtle family, native only to the south coast of Western Australia near watercourses and salt lakes. It is rarely grown in gardens, so care guidance is based on its native habitat and general knowledge of related Australian myrtles.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water moderately while establishing, then let the soil dry between waterings; it tolerates dry conditions once settled.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty soil; tolerates poor, mineral-rich soils.
Temperature
10–30 °C; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate

About

Austrobaeckea uncinella is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south coast of Western Australia. It is a shrub with narrowly egg-shaped to linear leaves and small white flowers with seven to thirteen stamens.

Where it grows

Austrobaeckea uncinella grows near watercourses and salt lakes between the Young River and Mount Heywood north of Esperance, in the Esperance Plains and Mallee biogeographic regions of southern Western Australia.

Other Austrobaeckea plants

Austrobaeckea columnaris · Austrobaeckea · Austrobaeckea latens · Austrobaeckea pachyphylla · Austrobaeckea pygmaea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Austrobaeckea uncinella 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.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…