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Darwinia hortiorum is a compact, densely branched shrub in the myrtle family, endemic to a small area of southwest Western Australia. It is grown mainly by specialist native plant enthusiasts, and it needs free-draining, low-nutrient soil and good light.
Darwinia hortiorum is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a compact, densely branched shrub with small leaves and inflorescences composed of up to twenty flowers with glossy, pale yellow to reddish petals and fleshy dark green sepals surrounded by papery brown bracteoles.
This shrub is found in a small area near Wandering in the South West region of Western Australia. It is distributed throughout five localities in the Jarrah Forest biogeographic region, occupying an area of approximately 9 square kilometres (3 sq mi) in the Monadnocks Conservation Park and neighbouring Boonering State Forest. All known populations are found amongst granite outcrops and their drainage lines growing in shallow
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Darwinia 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.
