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Lasiopetalum venustum

Lasiopetalum venustum
Photo: Jean and Fred Hort, CC BY 2.0

Lasiopetalum venustum is a small erect shrub from a restricted area of south-west Western Australia, grown for its pink and dark red flowers. It is known from woodland among granite boulders, so it needs well-drained soil and good light.

Family
Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water moderately while establishing, then allow the soil to dry between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty soil; tolerates poor, low-nutrient soils.
Temperature
10–30 °C; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Lasiopetalum venustum is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to a restricted area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with hairy stems, egg-shaped, three-lobed leaves and pink and dark red flowers.

Where it grows

This lasiopetalum is only known from a nature reserve near Gingin, where it grows in woodland among granite boulders.

Other Lasiopetalum plants

Lasiopetalum adenotrichum · Lasiopetalum angustifolium · Slender Velvet Bush · Pink Velvet Bush · Lasiopetalum bracteatum · Lasiopetalum cardiophyllum · Lasiopetalum cenobium · Lasiopetalum compactum · Lasiopetalum cordifolium · Lasiopetalum dielsii · Coast Velvet Bush · Lasiopetalum drummondii

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lasiopetalum venustum 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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