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Barbalin boronia

Boronia adamsiana

Barbalin boronia
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0

Barbalin boronia is a small, hairy, woolly-stemmed shrub in the citrus family, native to a small area of south-west Western Australia. It is grown mainly as a garden or native plant rather than a common houseplant, and it needs well-drained soil and full sun in its dry-climate home range.

Family
Rutaceae (Citrus family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water moderately while establishing, then rely on rainfall; avoid waterlogging, though the Kew tag notes it likes moisture.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or loamy soil, neutral to slightly acidic.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates cool winters and hot dry summers, protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Western Australia (Avon)
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Boronia adamsiana, commonly known as Barbalin boronia, is a plant in the citrus family, Rutaceae and is endemic to a small area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, hairy shrub with trifoliate leaves and pink or white, four-petalled flowers.

Where it grows

Barbalin boronia grows in scrub and heath, on flats and road reserves in the Avon Wheatbelt and Coolgardie biogeographic regions, approximately between Beacon, Trayning and Mount Marshall.

Other Boronia plants

Winged Boronia · Boronia albiflora · Alpine Boronia · Boronia alulata · Boronia amabilis · Boronia amplectens · Boronia anceps · Cyanothamnus anemonifolius · Cyanothamnus quadrangulus · Boronia angustisepala · Boronia anomala · Barker's Boronia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Boronia adamsiana 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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