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Yellow Calytrix

Calytrix gurulmundensis

Yellow Calytrix
Photo: Glenda Walter, CC0

Yellow Calytrix is a shrub of the myrtle family, native to the Guluguba-Chinchilla district of south-eastern Queensland, growing in open dry shrubland on gravelly soil and sandstone. Its key to cultivation is good drainage and full sun in a dry, open spot.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out between waterings; established plants need little supplementary water.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gravelly soil; avoid heavy, wet clay.
Temperature
Tolerates hot, dry summers and mild winter frosts typical of inland Queensland; protect young plants from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Queensland (Gulugula Distr.)
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Calytrix gurulmundensis is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a mostly glabrous shrub with linear to narrowly elliptic leaves, and cream-coloured flowers with a yellow base, and about 60 to 70 yellow stamens in several rows.

Where it grows

This species of Calytrix grows in open shrubland in gravelly soil and on sandstone in the Guluguba-Chinchilla district of south-eastern Queensland.

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 gurulmundensis 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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