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Dodonaea rhombifolia

Dodonaea rhombifolia
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0

Dodonaea rhombifolia, broad-leaf hop-bush, is an erect native shrub of eastern Australia that grows to about 1.5 m. It is tolerant of a range of soils and suits dry, sunny native gardens.

Family
Sapindaceae (Soapberry & maple family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then reduce to occasional deep watering; tolerates dry spells once established.
Soil
Well-drained soil, including rocky or gravelly mixes.
Temperature
Suited to subtropical to temperate conditions; tolerant of light frost, protect below -5 °C.
How easy
Easy
Native range
SE. New South Wales to NE. Victoria
Climate
subtropical

About

Dodonaea rhombifolia, commonly known as broad-leaf hop-bush is a species of plant in the family Sapindaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect, dioecious shrub with simple, usually elliptic leaves, flowers arranged in cymess, the flowers usually with four sepals and eight stamens, and capsules with 4 wings.

Where it grows

Broad-leaf hop-bush grows in rocky granite or basalt soils in shrubland, near creeks in north-eastern and eastern Victoria, and in the north-east and far south-east of New South Wales.

Other Dodonaea plants

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 rhombifolia 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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