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Sal Leaved Commersonia

Commersonia salviifolia

Sal Leaved Commersonia
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Commersonia salviifolia is a shrub from eastern Australia's subtropical highlands, usually found on rocky outcrops and cliff tops. It grows best in bright, open spots with well-drained soil and is grown mainly for its clusters of white flowers.

Family
Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then let the top few centimetres of soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or gritty soil; tolerates poor, rocky ground.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates light frost but protect from hard freezes.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. Queensland to NE. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Commersonia salviifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with lance-shaped leaves and white flowers in clusters of 5 to 30.

Where it grows

Commersonia salviifolia grows on mountain tops, near cliffs or on rock outcrops in open forest, shrubland or heath, usually at higher altitudes from near Buderim in south-eastern Queensland to Mount Warning in far north-eastern New South Wales.

Other Commersonia plants

Commersonia amystia · Commersonia apella · Brown kurrajong · Commersonia borealis · Commersonia breviseta · Commersonia corniculata · Commersonia corylifolia · Brittle Leaved Rulingia · Kerrawang · Commersonia densiflora · Commersonia erythrogyna · Commersonia gilva

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Commersonia salviifolia 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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