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Calytrix tenuiramea is a small, hairless shrub from south-west Western Australia, growing up to about 60 cm with tiny needle-like leaves and purple star-shaped flowers. It is grown as an ornamental and needs good drainage and a sunny, open position.
Calytrix tenuiramea is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a glabrous shrub with linear to narrowly elliptic leaves and purple flowers with about 40 to 50 stamens in several rows.
Calytrix tenuiramea is found from near Bunbury to near Albany where grows on stunted jarrah and Banksia forest in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Calytrix tenuiramea 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.
