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Chamelaucium marchantii is a dense, rounded shrub from the myrtle family, native to a small area of Western Australia's Mid West near Northampton. It is grown for its flowers and does best in full sun with well-drained, sandy soil.
Chamaelaucium marchantii is a member of the family Myrtaceae endemic to Western Australia.
The dense, rounded and many branched shrub typically grows to a height of 1 to 1.8 metres (3 to 6 ft). It blooms in October producing yellow-green flowers.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chamelaucium marchantii 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.
