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Maireana erioclada
Rosy bluebush is a bushy, spreading, grey-green (glaucous) shrub of arid southern Australia, growing up to about 60 cm tall. It thrives in full sun and well-drained, often saline or sandy soils.
Maireana erioclada, commonly known as rosy bluebush or fleshy bluebush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to southern continental Australia. It is a bushy, spreading, glaucous shrub with hairy branches, fleshy, club-shaped to narrowly egg-shaped leaves, bisexual flowers arranged singly, and a glabrous fruiting perianth with a narrowly funnel-shaped tube with horizontal wings.
Maireana erioclada is native to Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria where it grows on red-brown soils and on sandy loams on flat ground or in saline depressions. In Victoria, the species occurs in the far north-west of the state in mallee communities, extends to the edges of salt pans. The species is noted to invade disturbed areas along roadsides.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Maireana erioclada 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.
