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Conostephium hortiorum

Conostephium hortiorum
Photo: Jean and Fred Hort, CC BY 2.0

Conostephium hortiorum is a spreading, low shrub from the Darling Range in south-western Western Australia, grown for its pendulous straw-coloured and dark purple flowers. It is a Western Australian native that wants well-drained, sandy soil and full sun.

Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly once established; let the soil dry out between waterings, as it is adapted to dry summers.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy, acidic soil; avoid heavy or waterlogged ground.
Temperature
Mild Mediterranean-type climate suits it; tolerates frost only lightly, protect below about -3 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Conostephium hortiorum is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading shrub with linear, narrowly elliptic or narrowly triangular sharply-pointed leaves and pendulous, spindle-shaped, straw-coloured and dark purple flowers.

Where it grows

Conostephium hortiorum in low woodland only sandy soil on the eastern part of the Darling Range, mainly between the Great Southern and Brookton Highways in the Jarrah forest biogeographic region of south-western Western Australia.

Other Conostephium plants

Conostephium drummondii · Conostephium laeve · Conostephium magnum · Conostephium marchantiorum · Conostephium minus · Conostephium papillosum · Conostephium pendulum · Conostephium preissii · Conostephium prolatum · Conostephium roei · Conostephium uncinatum · Conostephium

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Conostephium hortiorum 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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