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Bertya glandulosa

Bertya glandulosa
Photo: jayn, CC BY-SA 4.0

Bertya glandulosa is a many-branched shrub in the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae), native to eastern Australia, reaching up to about 2 m. It is a wild woodland species rarely grown in gardens, so care notes are general guidance for a hardy native shrub.

Family
Euphorbiaceae (Spurge family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then rely mostly on rainfall; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, somewhat sandy or gravelly soil.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates light frost, protect from hard freezes.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. Queensland
Climate
subtropical

About

Bertya glandulosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with many branches, narrowly oblong to strap-like leaves, flowers borne singly in leaf axils, and narrowly elliptic capsules with a dark red seed.

Where it grows

This species of Bertya grows in open eucalypt woodland or dense open shrubland in the Stanthorpe-Wallangarra area of south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales.

Other Bertya plants

Bertya brownii · Bertya calycina · Bertya cunninghamii · Bertya dimerostigma · Bertya ernestiana · Bertya findlayi · Bertya grampiana · Bertya granitica · Bertya gummifera · Bertya ingramii · Bertya lapicola · Bertya linearifolia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bertya glandulosa 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.

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