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Cheiranthera brevifolia

Cheiranthera brevifolia
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY-SA 3.0

Cheiranthera brevifolia is a small, upright, sparsely branched shrub from southwestern Western Australia, growing only about 20 cm tall. It needs open, sunny, well-drained sites similar to its native gravelly sands and laterite.

Family
Pittosporaceae (Pittospor family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or gravelly mix, low in nutrients.
Temperature
Mild temperate to subtropical conditions; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
S. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Cheiranthera brevifolia, is a small upright, sparsely branched shrub. It has smooth stems, 0.2 m (7.9 in) high and sparsely branched. It grows in gravelly sand, laterite and granite on undulating hillsides near Esperance and Albany in Western Australia.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cheiranthera brevifolia 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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