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Limonium sinense

Limonium sinense
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Limonium sinense is a perennial sea lavender from coastal China, Taiwan, the Ryukyu Islands and Vietnam, reaching about 60 cm, and is grown mainly as a cut flower in many colour cultivars. Key to growing it is full sun, sharp drainage and mild conditions.

Family
Plumbaginaceae (Plumbagin family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Water moderately while establishing, then let the top of the soil dry out between waterings; it tolerates salt and dry spells better than soggy roots.
Soil
Sandy or gritty, well-drained soil; tolerates saline soil.
Temperature
10–30 °C; hardy to about -5 °C, protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
E. & SE. China to Vietnam, S. Nansei-shotō to Taiwan
Climate
temperate

About

Limonium sinense is a species of flowering plant in the sea lavender genus Limonium, family Plumbaginaceae, native to coastal China, Taiwan, the Ryukyu Islands, and Vietnam. It is a perennial reaching 60 cm (24 in), found on sandy, salty shales next to the ocean. There are a large number of cultivars, with a wide variety of flower colors, created for the cut flower industry. Wild individuals have flowers with white sepals and yellow petals.

Other Limonium plants

Limonium arboreum · Matted Sea Lavender · Rock Sea Lavender · Algerian Statice · Limonium bourgeaui · Lavender thrift · Siberian Statice · Limonium minutum · Saltmarsh sea lavender · Perez's sea lavender · Florist's Sea Lavender · Limonium puberulum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Limonium sinense 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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