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Homoranthus elusus

Homoranthus elusus
Photo: NSW Herbarium, CC BY 4.0

Homoranthus elusus is a rare Australian shrub in the myrtle family, known only from a single collection near Tenterfield on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales. It is seldom cultivated, so care is based on related Homoranthus and Australian heath shrubs.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; allow the soil to dry between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or gritty soil low in nutrients.
Temperature
10-30 °C; tolerates light frost but protect from hard freezes.
How easy
Hard
Native range
NE. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Homoranthus elusus is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to a small area on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales. It is a shrub with linear leaves and with groups of up to four flowers in leaf axils. It is only known from a single specimen collected near Tenterfield.

Where it grows

Known from a single collection from Bluff Rock south of Tenterfield New South Wales. May grow in scrub and heath patches.

Other Homoranthus plants

Homoranthus bebo · Homoranthus biflorus · Binghi Homoranthus · Homoranthus brevistylis · Homoranthus bruhlii · Homoranthus cernuus · Homoranthus clarksonii · Homoranthus coracinus · Bolivia Homoranthus · Homoranthus cummingii · Fairy Bells · Homoranthus decasetus

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Homoranthus elusus 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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