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Scott River Darwinia

Darwinia ferricola

Scott River Darwinia
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Scott River darwinia is a rounded, densely branched shrub from a very small area of Western Australia, grown mainly by specialist native plant enthusiasts. It needs good drainage and full sun in a mild, dry-summer climate.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established and let the soil dry between waterings; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty mix; tolerates poor, low-nutrient soils.
Temperature
Mild climates suited; protect from frost, roughly below -5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Darwinia ferricola, commonly known as the Scott River darwinia, is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to a small area in Western Australia. It is a rounded, densely branched shrub with crowded, linear leaves mostly only on younger branches. The flowers are greenish-yellow and red, and arranged in groups on the ends of the branches, with a long white or reddish style protruding from the petal tube.

Where it grows

This darwinia is only known from the Scott Coastal Plain, east of Augusta where it grows in scrubland in sand or clay over ironstone.

Other Darwinia plants

Fine Leaved Darwinia · Darwinia apiculata · Darwinia biflora · Darwinia briggsiae · Darwinia camptostylis · Darwinia capitellata · Mogumber bell · Chapman's bell · Lemon Scented Darwinia · Yellow Mountain Bell · Darwinia diminuta · Darwinia diosmoides

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Darwinia ferricola 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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