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Bertya grampiana

Bertya grampiana
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0

Bertya grampiana, or mountain Bertya, is an erect shrub of 2 to 4 m endemic to the Grampians in western Victoria, Australia. It is a wild species of sandy, sandstone soils near watercourses and is rarely grown in gardens.

Family
Euphorbiaceae (Spurge family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly once established, allowing the soil to dry between waterings, as it grows naturally in well-drained sandy soil.
Soil
Free-draining sandy soil, acidic to neutral, with good drainage.
Temperature
Tolerates cool temperate conditions; protect from severe frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
W. Victoria
Climate
temperate

About

Bertya grampiana, commonly known as mountain Bertya, is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae and is endemic to Victoria. It is an erect, monoecious shrub with strap-like to linear or narrowly elliptic leaves with the narrower end towards the base, flowers borne singly in leaf axils, and oval to narrowly elliptic capsules with a mottled greyish-white to light brown seed.

Where it grows

This species of Bertya is restricted to the Victoria Range in Grampians National Park, where it grows in shrubland near watercourses in sandy soil over sandstone.

Other Bertya plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bertya grampiana 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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