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Conospermum wycherleyi

Conospermum wycherleyi is an erect shrub endemic to south-western Western Australia, grown mainly for its woolly white flower spikes. It needs excellent drainage and a sunny, open position, as with most Western Australian natives.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; avoid waterlogging and let the top of the soil dry between waterings.
Soil
Sandy, free-draining, low-phosphorus soil; acidic mixes suit it.
Temperature
Tolerates mild to warm Mediterranean conditions; mild frost tolerance is likely but not documented, so protect from hard freezes.
How easy
Hard
Native range
W. Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Conospermum wycherleyi is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with spoon-shaped to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, spike-like panicles of woolly, white, tube-shaped flowers and nuts with cream-coloured to orange hairs.

Where it grows

This species of Conospermum grows in sandy soils and laterite on sandplains near Badgingarra and Eneabba and north to Walkaway in the Geraldton Sandplains and Jarrah Forest 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 wycherleyi 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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