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Isopogon buxifolius

Isopogon buxifolius
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Isopogon buxifolius is an upright shrub from south-west Western Australia, grown for its clustered pink flower spikes. It likes moist conditions and suits a sunny, well-drained garden bed or open position.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then keep soil moist but never waterlogged.
Soil
Moist, well-drained, acidic sandy or loamy soil; avoid lime and alkaline soils.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates light frost, protect below -5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Isopogon buxifolius is a species of plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an upright shrub with egg-shaped to elliptic or oblong leaves and clustered spikes of pink flowers.

Where it grows

Variety buxifolius grows in swampy areas between Collie, Denmark and Albany and var. obovatus has been recorded in sandy loam over laterite in a small area between the Stirling Range, Cape Riche and Bremer Bay.

Other Isopogon plants

Spider Coneflower · Elkhorn Coneflower · Broad Leaf Drumsticks · Narrow-leaf Drumsticks · Isopogon asper · Isopogon attenuatus · Isopogon axillaris · Stirling Range Coneflower · Horny Cone Bush · Isopogon crithmifolius · Isopogon cuneatus · Nepean Conebush

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Isopogon buxifolius 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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