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Maireana oppositifolia
Heathy bluebush is a compact, dense, much-branched native shrub of southern Australia that grows to about 80 cm and suits saline or sandy soils. It is grown mainly for drought, salt and wind tolerance in revegetation and dryland landscapes.
Maireana oppositifolia, commonly known as heathy bluebush is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to the south of continental Australia. It is a compact, usually dioecious shrub with woolly branches when young, narrowly egg-shaped leaves usually arranged in opposite pairs, flowers arranged singly, and a glabrous, thin-walled fruiting perianth with a fan-shaped, prominently-veined wing.
Heathy bluebush grows in clay loam and sand on mud flats, salt lakes, saline flats and salt pans in the Avon Wheatbelt, Carnarvon, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Great Victoria Desert, Hampton, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Murchison, Nullarbor and Yalgoo bioregions of south-western Western Australia, the south of South Australia and the far north-west of Victoria.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Maireana oppositifolia 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.
