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Dodonaea adenophora

Dodonaea adenophora
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY-SA 3.0 au

Dodonaea adenophora is a dioecious shrub from south-west Western Australia, growing up to about 2.5 m in mallee scrub and open woodland. It is grown mainly as a hardy garden or revegetation shrub in dry, sunny conditions.

Family
Sapindaceae (Soapberry & maple family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then rely on little supplementary water once settled, avoiding waterlogging.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or loamy soil; tolerates poor, sandy soils.
Temperature
Hardy in mild to warm climates; frost tolerant to about -5 °C, protect young plants below that.
How easy
Easy
Native range
S. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Dodonaea adenophora is a species of plant in the family Sapindaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub with imparipinnate leaves, usually with four or six leaflets, single or paired flowers and capsules with four wings.

Where it grows

This species of Dodonaea grows in mallee scrub and open woodland in granite sand and red loamy soils and is widespread in the south-west of Western Australia from Geraldton and Meekatharra and east, almost to the border with South Australia, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains, Great Victoria Desert, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Murchison and Yalgoo bioregions.

Other Dodonaea plants

Dodonaea amblyophylla · Dodonaea amplisemina · Coast Hop Bush · Dodonaea arnhemica · Dodonaea barklyana · Crinkled Hop Bush · Dodonaea boroniifolia · Dodonaea bursariifolia · Dodonaea caespitosa · Camfield's Hop Bush · Horny Hop Bush · Dodonaea concinna

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dodonaea adenophora 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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