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Conostephium marchantiorum

Conostephium marchantiorum is a small erect shrub from south-western Western Australia, grown mainly for its tubular pale flowers. It is a Western Australian native that needs sandy, well-drained soil and a sunny, open position.

Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or sandy loam soil, low in phosphorus.
Temperature
Tolerates mild to warm conditions; frost tolerance is unknown, so protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Conostephium marchantiorum is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with linear leaves clustered near the ends of branchlets, and pale green and pink, densely-bearded, tube-shaped flowers.

Where it grows

This leucopogon grows on sand on plains, creeklines and the edges of salt lakes in the Esperance Plains and Mallee bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Other Conostephium plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Conostephium marchantiorum 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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