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Dodonaea ptarmicifolia is an erect, dioecious shrub up to about 4 m tall, native to south-western Western Australia where it grows in mallee scrub on sandy or granite loam. It is a rarely grown species; care follows the general needs of Dodonaea shrubs, with well-drained soil and full sun being the key.
Dodonaea ptarmicifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Sapindaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, dioecious shrub with simple, sessile linear leaves, flowers in cymes of 3 or four in leaf axils, the flowers usually with three sepals and six stamens, and capsules with three membranous wings.
This species of Dodonaea grows in sandy or granite loam in mallee scrub between Tammin and Peak Charles National Park in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, and Mallee bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
Dodonaea adenophora · 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
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dodonaea ptarmicifolia 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.
