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Boronia serrulata
Also called Rose Boronia, Sydney Rockrose
Native rose (Boronia serrulata) is a small erect shrub from the Sydney basin in New South Wales, prized for its bright pink, four-petalled flowers. It grows best in well-drained, sandy soil with cool roots.
Boronia serrulata, commonly known as native rose or rose boronia, is a species of plant in the citrus family, Rutaceae, and is endemic to New South Wales, mainly in the Sydney basin. It is an erect, woody shrub with glabrous branchlets, simple, egg-shaped leaves with fine teeth on the edges, and bright pink, four-petalled flowers on the ends of the branchlets.
This boronia is described as an attractive shrub with bright green leaves that are aromatic when crushed. It is most easily grown from semi-hardwood cuttings taken in early summer and the plant grows best in well-drained soil with a cool root run.
Native rose grows in sandy soil in moist heath, mainly in near-coastal parts of the Sydney basin.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Boronia serrulata 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.
