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Prickly Guinea Flower

Hibbertia obtusibracteata

Prickly Guinea Flower
Photo: Tim Hammer, CC BY 4.0

Hibbertia obtusibracteata is a small, much-branched shrub from Kangaroo Island in South Australia, with bright yellow flowers, grown mainly in native and rockery plantings. It needs a sunny, well-drained site in a mild climate.

Family
Dilleniaceae (Dilleni family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then only in dry spells; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty soil, low in nutrients.
Temperature
10–30 °C; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
South Australia (Kangaroo I.)
Climate
subtropical

About

Hibbertia obtusibracteata is a species of flowering plant in the family Dilleniaceae and is endemic to Kangaroo Island in South Australia. It is a much-branched shrub with linear leaves and bright yellow flowers, usually with six stamens arranged in a cluster on one side of two glabrous carpels.

Where it grows

This hibbertia only occurs on Kangaroo Island where it grows in scrub and heath.

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 obtusibracteata 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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