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Bertya granitica is a small, many-branched shrub from south-east Queensland, known only from Beeron National Park, where it grows on exposed granite outcrops. It needs sun, very good drainage and shallow, lean soil.
Bertya granitica is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a shrub with many branches, linear leaves, flowers borne singly in leaf axils or on the ends of branches, and narrowly elliptic capsules with a light brown seed.
This species of Bertya is only known from Beeron National Park in south-east Queensland, where it grows in shallow soil on exposed granite outcrops in open forest or woodland.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bertya granitica 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.
