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Conospermum amoenum, blue smokebush, is a small erect or spreading shrub from south-west Western Australia, grown for its spikes of blue or white tubular flowers. It needs good drainage and a sunny spot, and is best suited to Mediterranean-type climates.
Conospermum amoenum, commonly known as blue smokebush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub with linear leaves, and spikes of blue or white tube-shaped flowers.
Conospermum amoenum is found on ironstone hills and uplands in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest Mallee and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of Western Australia where it grows in sandy to sandy clay soils often containing lateritic gravel. Subspecies amoenum is common between Waroona and Dalwallinu on the Darling Scarp and subsp. cuneatum is less common, found between Dryandra and York.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Conospermum amoenum 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.
