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Leucopogon newbeyi

Leucopogon newbeyi
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY 4.0

Leucopogon newbeyi is a small erect shrub from the heath family, native to a small area of southwest Western Australia. It grows in the understorey of mallee woodland and is rarely cultivated, so most care guidance is general to Leucopogon.

Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly once established, letting the top of the soil dry between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty, low-fertility soil.
Temperature
10–25 °C; tolerates mild frost but protect from prolonged freezing.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Leucopogon newbeyi is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to a small area in the southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with densely hairy young branchlets, linear to narrowly elliptic or narrowly egg-shaped leaves and erect, compact clusters of 7 to 17 white, bell-shaped flowers mainly on the ends of branches.

Where it grows

This leucopogon grows in the understorey of mallee woodland and occurs in a narrow band from near Nyabing to south of Ongerup in the Mallee bioregion of south-western Western Australia.

Other Leucopogon plants

Leucopogon acicularis · Leucopogon affinis · Leucopogon alternifolius · Leucopogon altissimus · Leucopogon amplectens · Beard Heath · Leucopogon apiculatus · Leucopogon assimilis · Leucopogon atherolepis · Leucopogon audax · Leucopogon australis · Styphelia blepharolepis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Leucopogon newbeyi 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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