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Hibbertia fruticosa

Hibbertia fruticosa
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Hibbertia fruticosa is a small woody shrub from New South Wales, Australia, growing up to about 1.2 m with yellow flowers. It is a rock-slope woodland plant best grown in free-draining soil in a sunny spot.

Family
Dilleniaceae (Dilleni family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water moderately while establishing, then allow the soil to dry between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty soil; tolerates poor, rocky ground.
Temperature
Suited to a temperate to subtropical climate; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Hibbertia fruticosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a woody shrub with linear to lance-shaped leaves and yellow flowers arranged singly on the ends of short side shoots, with eighteen to thirty-five stamens arranged around three carpels.

Where it grows

This hibbertia grows on rocky slopes in woodland. Subspecies fruticosa occurs in the northern part of the Nandewar Range and subspecies pilligaensis occurs on the North West Slopes of central New South Wales, including in the Pilliga Nature Reserve.

Other Hibbertia plants

Bandalup Buttercup · Hibbertia acaulothrix · Needle Leaved Guinea Flower · Prickly Guinea Flower · Hibbertia acrotrichion · Pointed Hibbertia · Hibbertia alopecota · Hibbertia ambita · Hibbertia amplexicaulis · Hibbertia ancistrophylla · Hibbertia ancistrotricha · Hibbertia andrewsiana

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hibbertia fruticosa 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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