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Smooth Fringe Myrtle

Calytrix glaberrima

Smooth Fringe Myrtle
Photo: Kym Nicolson, CC BY-SA 4.0

Smooth fringe myrtle is a small shrub native to southern South Australia, where it grows in heathy scrub on sandy soils. It is a little-known species with tiny leaves and white to pink flowers, and is best grown in well-drained, sandy soil in a sunny spot.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then reduce to occasional watering; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or gritty soil, low in nutrients.
Temperature
Mild temperate to subtropical conditions; tolerates frost lightly, protect below about -5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
South Australia (S. Mt. Lofty Range, Kangaroo I.)
Climate
subtropical

About

Calytrix glaberrima, commonly known as smooth fringe-myrtle, is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south of South Australia. It is a woody, glabrous shrub with elliptic, linear or egg-shaped leaves and clusters of white to pink flowers with 20 to 30 white stamens in a single row.

Where it grows

Calytrix glaberrima grows in heathy scrub on sand and ridges on the southern Mount Lofty Range and on Kangaroo Island in the south of South Australia.

Other Calytrix plants

Fringe Myrtle · Calytrix acutifolia · Snow Myrtle · Calytrix amethystina · Yellow Starflower · Calytrix arborescens · Calytrix asperula · Calytrix aurea · Calytrix birdii · Calytrix brevifolia · Calytrix breviseta · Calytrix brownii

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Calytrix glaberrima 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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