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Isopogon heterophyllus

Isopogon heterophyllus
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Isopogon heterophyllus is a shrub from southwest Western Australia, grown for its spherical pink flower heads. It needs well-drained, low-phosphorus soil and full sun to do well.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water moderately while establishing, then reduce; avoid waterlogging and never let it sit in wet soil.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or acidic soil low in phosphorus.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates mild frost, protect from hard freezes.
How easy
Moderate

About

Isopogon heterophyllus is a plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a shrub with simple or pinnate, cylindrical leaves and hairy, usually pink flowers.

Where it grows

This isopogon grows in open woodland and shrubland and is common and widespread between Cranbrook, Albany, the Stirling Range National Park and Esperance.

Other Isopogon plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Isopogon heterophyllus 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.

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