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Beaufortia burbidgeae

Beaufortia burbidgeae, known as column beaufortia, is a needle-leaved shrub from the myrtle family native to southwest Western Australia. It is grown for its showy red and green bottlebrush-like flower heads, and it needs well-drained soil and full sun.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then allow the soil to dry between waterings; it dislikes wet roots.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or gravelly soil, ideally lateritic; avoid heavy clay.
Temperature
Mild temperate conditions; tolerates light frost, protect below about -5 °C.
How easy
Moderate

About

Beaufortia burbidgeae, commonly known as column beaufortia, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to Southwest Australia. It is a shrub with crowded, needle-shaped leaves and mostly red, or red and green flowers on the ends of the branches from spring to early summer.

Where it grows

Column beaufortia grows in or near laterite on hills in heath and woodland, occasionally in sand. It occurs between Brookton, Corrigin and Boolanelling Nature Reserve in the Avon Wheatbelt bioregion in south-western Western Australia.

Other Melaleuca plants

Kalbarri Beaufortia · Dark Beaufortia · Badgingarra Beaufortia · Beaufortia bracteosa · Stirling Range Bottlebrush · Gravel Bottlebrush · Elegant Beaufortia · Beaufortia empetrifolia · Beaufortia eriocephala · Grey Leaved Beaufortia · Beaufortia interstans · Beaufortia kwongkanicola

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Beaufortia burbidgeae 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.

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