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Spider Smokebush

Conospermum teretifolium

Spider Smokebush
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY-SA 4.0

Spider smokebush is an erect Western Australian shrub of the Protea family, grown for its needle-like, round-section leaves and creamy white flowers. It needs well-drained, low-nutrient soil and full sun, and is best kept dry in summer.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; avoid waterlogging and keep dry in summer.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty, low-phosphorus soil.
Temperature
Mild to warm, frost-tolerant to light frost; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. & S. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Conospermum teretifolium, commonly known as the spider smokebush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with leaves that are circular in cross section, panicles of creamy white, tube-shaped flowers and the fruit is a hairy nut.

Where it grows

Spider smokebush grows along the south coast between Albany and the east of Esperance in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western 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 teretifolium 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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