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Isopogon pruinosus

Isopogon pruinosus
Photo: Kevin Thiele from Perth, Australia, CC BY 2.0

Isopogon pruinosus is a compact, spreading shrub from southwestern Western Australia, growing to about 2 m with pink flower heads. It needs well-drained, sandy, low-nutrient soil and full sun, and is best suited to dry, mild climates.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy, low-nutrient soil; avoid phosphorus-rich fertilisers.
Temperature
Tolerates mild to warm conditions; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Isopogon pruinosus is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to southwestern Western Australia. It is a compact, spreading shrub with narrow egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base and spherical to elliptic heads of pink flowers.

Where it grows

Both subspecies of Isopogon pruinosus grow in heath or mallee woodland in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains and Mallee biogeographic regions. Subspecies glabellus occurs from Corrigin to north of Hyden and subspecies pruinosus from south-west of Hyden to Frank Hann National Park with a disjunct population in the Fitzgerald River National Park.

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 pruinosus 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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