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Balaustion unguiculatum is a small, low shrub from south-west Western Australia, growing 20 to 50 cm high, with white flowers tinged pink. It is a rare native of granite outcrops and is not a common garden plant, so care is mainly a matter of mimicking its dry, sunny native habitat.
Balaustion unguiculatum is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of the south-west of Western Australia. It is shrub with egg-shaped leaves, the narrower end towards the base, white flowers tinged with pink, and 20 to 22 stamens.
This species of Balaustion is associated with granite outcrops in a small area north of Bullfinch in the Coolgardie bioregion of south-western 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 unguiculatum 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.
