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Smokebush

Conospermum floribundum

Smokebush
Photo: Kym Nicolson, CC BY-SA 4.0

A compact, erect shrub from south-west Western Australia, growing up to about 45 cm, with white, tube-shaped flowers tipped blue in spring. It needs excellent drainage and full sun, and dislikes rich soil or wet feet.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; let the soil dry out between waterings and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Sandy, gravelly, free-draining, low-phosphorus soil; acidic to neutral mix.
Temperature
Mild temperate to subtropical conditions; frost tolerance is limited, so protect below about 0 °C.
How easy
Hard
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Conospermum floribundum is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a compact, erect shrub with narrowly linear leaves that are circular in cross-section, and spike-like panicles of white, tube-shaped flowers with blue tips.

Where it grows

This species of Conospermum occurs between Albany and the Stirling Range and east to Bremer Bay where it grows in sandy gravelly soils in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Mallee bioregions of southern Western Australia.

Other Conospermum plants

Conospermum acerosum · Conospermum amoenum · Conospermum boreale · Conospermum brachyphyllum · Conospermum bracteosum · Conospermum brownii · Conospermum burgessiorum · Conospermum caeruleum · Conospermum canaliculatum · Conospermum capitatum · Conospermum cinereum · Conospermum coerulescens

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Conospermum floribundum 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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