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Hypocalymma scariosum

Hypocalymma scariosum
Photo: Anthony Tyler, CC BY-SA 4.0

Hypocalymma scariosum is a small erect shrublet from the myrtle family, native to swamps in the south of Western Australia, reaching about 15 to 40 cm tall. It is a wetland plant, so keeping its soil consistently moist is the key to growing it.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist and never let it dry out completely, as it grows in swamps.
Soil
Moist, acidic, sandy or peaty mix with good drainage in the top layer.
Temperature
10–30 °C; protect from hard frost
How easy
Hard
Native range
SW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Hypocalymma scariosum is a species of flowering in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is an erect, apparently short-lived, glabrous shrublet, with grooved linear leaves, and cream-coloured or sometimes yellow flowers with 12 to 20 stamens.

Where it grows

This species of Hypocalymma is found in swamps, often in jarrah woodland or Myrtaceae-rich shrubland from the Scott River plain to Lake Jasper and between Walpole and the Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve in the Jarrah Forest and Warren bioregions of southern Western Australia.

Other Hypocalymma plants

White Myrtle · Hypocalymma asperum · Hypocalymma connatum · Hypocalymma cordifolium · Hypocalymma elongatum · Hypocalymma ericifolium · Hypocalymma gardneri · Hypocalymma hirsutum · Barrens Myrtle · Hypocalymma linifolium · Hypocalymma longifolium · Hypocalymma melaleucoides

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hypocalymma scariosum 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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