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Brachyloma ericoides
Brush Heath is a small, erect or spreading Australian shrub from the heath family, usually 20 to 60 cm tall, bearing pink tubular flowers. It is a fine plant for dry, sandy, well-drained soils in full sun.
Brachyloma ericoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-east of continental Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub with linear to narrowly elliptic leaves and usually pink, tube-shaped flowers.
Brachyloma ericoides grows in sandy soils, or with limestone. Brachyloma ericoides subsp. ericoides is found in western Victoria and south western South Australia, but species bicolor only occurs on Kangaroo Island.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Brachyloma ericoides 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.
