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Brachyloma elusum is a compact, erect shrub from the heath family, known only from two small populations in south-western Western Australia. It is a rare wild species that grows in yellow sand heathland, so it is seldom cultivated.
Brachyloma elusum is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to a two locations in the west of Western Australia. It is an erect, compact shrub with linear to narrowly egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end toward the base, and red, tube-shaped flowers.
This species of shrub grows in yellow sand in tall heathland, and is only known from two populations, one north-east of Narembeen in the Avon Wheatbelt bioregion and the other east of Hyden in the Mallee bioregion of south-western Western Australia.
Brachyloma baxteri · Fringed Daphne Heath · Daphne Heath · Brachyloma delbi · Brachyloma depressum · Brachyloma djerral · Brush Heath · Brachyloma geissoloma · Brachyloma mogin · Brachyloma nguba · Brachyloma pirara · Brachyloma preissii
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Brachyloma elusum 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.
