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Darwinia nubigena, known as success bell or red mountain bell, is a small erect shrub from the Stirling Range in south-western Western Australia, grown for its pendent red flowers. It is a rare, wild species confined to one mountain saddle, so it is rarely cultivated and care advice is largely general.
Darwinia nubigena, commonly known as success bell or red mountain bell, is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with egg-shaped leaves arranged in opposite pairs, and groups of 4 or 5 pendent red flowers surrounded by larger green and red bracts.
Success bell is confined to a small area on a saddle on a mountain in the centre of the eastern part of Stirling Range National Park where it grows in dense, montane mallee shrubland. There is a single population comprising around 10,000 individuals. The area was burnt in April 1991 but has regenerated strongly from seed with up to 100 seedlings per square metre.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Darwinia nubigena 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.
