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Isopogon fletcheri
Fletcher's drumsticks is a bushy native shrub of the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, grown for its drumstick-shaped flower heads. It is hardy in well-drained, low-phosphorus conditions, and is best kept as a garden plant in its native climate.
Isopogon fletcheri, commonly known as Fletcher's drumsticks, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to a restricted area in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. It is a bushy shrub with narrow egg-shaped to narrow lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and top-shaped to egg-shaped heads of yellowish or creamy green flowers.
This species is hardy when grown in well-drained soil, using low-phosphorus fertilisers.
Fletcher's drumsticks grows in forest within the spray zone of waterfalls near sandstone cliffs in a few places near Blackheath. All of its range is contained in the Blue Mountains National Park. It is commonly found in sandstone and gravel soil.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Isopogon fletcheri 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.
