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Salt Darwinia

Darwinia salina

Salt Darwinia
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0

Salt Darwinia is a small shrub from South Australia's saline country, grown mainly as a native garden or rockery plant. The key to growing it is good drainage and full sun, as it is adapted to dry, salty soils.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established, allowing the soil to dry out between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or gritty soil; tolerates saline and poor soils.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
South Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Darwinia salina is a small shrub in the myrtle family. It is native to South Australia.

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 salina 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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