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Conospermum acerosum, the needle-leaved smokebush, is a spindly shrub from south west Western Australia with needle-like leaves and white or pink flower panicles. It is a sandy-soil, Mediterranean-climate plant that needs sharp drainage and sun.
Conospermum acerosum, commonly known as needle-leaved smokebush, is a species of flowering plant in family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south west of Western Australia. It is spindly, erect or straggly shrub with needle-shaped or thread-like leaves, panicles of white or pink flowers and reddish brown nuts.
Needle-leaved smokebush grows in sandy soil, often over laterite, from the Kalbarri National Park south to Augusta and inland as far as Coorow, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions. Subspecies hirsutum occurs in the northern part of the distribution, from Kalbarri to Northampton, and subsp. acerosum from south of Northampton to near Perth, with isolated populations near Busselton and Nannup.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Conospermum acerosum 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.
