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Beaufortia raggedensis

Beaufortia raggedensis
Photo: Em Lamond, CC BY 4.0

Beaufortia raggedensis, Mount Ragged beaufortia, is a compact Western Australian shrub in the myrtle family, known from only a few mountain slopes in Cape Arid National Park. It is rarely grown outside its native range, and the notes below describe the genus' general needs.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; the plant tolerates dry conditions and dislikes waterlogging.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or gritty soil; tolerates poor, low-nutrient soils.
Temperature
10–30 °C; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Hard

About

Beaufortia raggedensis, commonly known as Mount Ragged beaufortia, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a compact shrub with densely clustered leaves and large heads of deep red flowers in spring and only occurs near Mount Arid in the Cape Arid National Park.

Where it grows

Beaufortia raggedensis grows in quartzite, only on the slopes and bases of mountains of the Russell Range in the Cape Arid National Park, Mallee bioregion.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Beaufortia raggedensis 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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