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Balaustion pulcherrimum
Balaustion pulcherrimum, commonly known as native pomegranate, is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is prostrate shrub with egg-shaped or narrowly egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and orange or red flowers with 15 to 35 stamens.
This species of Balaustion grows in yellow sand on sandplains between Lake Monger, Kirkalocka station and Hyden in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Mallee, Murchison and Yalgoo bioregions in the south-west of Western Australia.
Balaustion exsertum · Balaustion grande · Balaustion baiocalyx · Balaustion bimucronatum · Balaustion filifolium · Balaustion grandibracteatum · Balaustion hemisphaericum · Balaustion interruptum · Balaustion karroun · Balaustion mukinbudin · Balaustion multicaule · Balaustion polyandrum
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Balaustion pulcherrimum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
