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Maireana decalvans
Black cottonbush is a bushy, fleshy-leaved perennial shrub native to southeastern Australia, usually grown as a hardy native for dry or salt-affected ground. Its key to success is matching it to heavy soil that gets seasonal wetting and then dries out.
Maireana decalvans, commonly known as black cottonbush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to Australia. It is a erect to spreading perennial plant with fleshy, terete to narrowly spindle-shaped leaves, glabrous, bisexual flowers arranged singly, and a hairy fruiting perianth with a hemispherical tube and a thin-walled wing.
Black cottonbush grows in heavy, seasonally wet, waterlogged soil and is sometimes a coloniser of cleared land. In is found in western New South Wales, mainly along the Murray River floodplain, the mid-west and Melbourne-Bacchus Marsh areas of Victoria, the south-east of South Australia and south-eastern Queensland. It has also been naturalised in the Cape Provinces of South Africa.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Maireana decalvans 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.
