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Hypocalymma sylvestre, the Chittering myrtle, is a low spreading shrub from a small area of south-west Western Australia, grown mainly for its pale yellow flowers. It suits well-drained sandy soil in full sun.
Hypocalymma sylvestre commonly known as Chittering myrtle, is a species of flowering in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, and is endemic to a restricted part of the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading shrub, with broadly egg-shaped to heart-shaped leaves, and pale yellow flowers with 100 to 200 stamens in several rows.
Chittering myrtle is found in woodland and on lateritic hilltops in powderbark wandoo in an area centred around Chittering in the south-west of Western Australia, where it grows in sandy-loamy soils.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hypocalymma sylvestre 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.
