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Pink Boronia

Boronia rosmarinifolia

Pink Boronia
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Pink Boronia (Boronia rosmarinifolia) is a small, erect, woody shrub of eastern Australia, growing to about 1 m, with pink flowers from July to October. It is a native of wallum heath and woodland and is grown mainly for its flowers.

Family
Rutaceae (Citrus family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then allow the top of the soil to dry slightly between waterings; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Free-draining, acidic, sandy or peaty soil with good organic matter.
Temperature
10–28 °C; protect from frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Queensland to NE. New South Wales
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Boronia rosmarinifolia, commonly known as the forest rose, is a plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with many branches, simple leaves and pale to bright pink flowers arranged singly in leaf axils.

Where it grows

The forest boronia grows in wallum heath and woodland between Bundaberg in Queensland and Grafton in New South Wales.

Other Boronia plants

Barbalin boronia · Winged Boronia · Boronia albiflora · Alpine Boronia · Boronia alulata · Boronia amabilis · Boronia amplectens · Boronia anceps · Cyanothamnus anemonifolius · Cyanothamnus quadrangulus · Boronia angustisepala · Boronia anomala

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Boronia rosmarinifolia 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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