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Leucopogon tenuicaulis

Leucopogon tenuicaulis
Photo: Kevin Thiele from Perth, Australia, CC BY 2.0

Leucopogon tenuicaulis is a slender, erect to sprawling heath-family shrub from the far southwest of Western Australia, growing to about 50 cm with small white or pale pink tubular flowers. It is a wild heath species of winter-wet heath and woodland, rarely cultivated, so care advice is limited.

Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep the root zone moist in its growing season and avoid waterlogging, reflecting its winter-wet native habitat.
Soil
Acidic, sandy or peaty, well-drained soil typical of Western Australian heath.
Temperature
Mild temperate conditions; protect from frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Leucopogon tenuicaulis is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to the far southwest of Western Australia. It is an erect or sprawling shrub with thin stems, upright triangular to narrowly egg-shaped or narrowly elliptic leaves and erect, white or pale pink, tube-shaped flower arranged in large groups on the ends of branches and in upper leaf axils.

Where it grows

This leucopogon grows in winter-wet heath and woodland on the flats to the north, north-east and east of Augusta in the Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions in the far south-west of 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 tenuicaulis 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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