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Marianthus coeruleopunctatus

Blue-spotted marianthus is a twining shrub or climber from southwest Western Australia, grown for its pale blue flowers with darker spots. It is a species of the Pittosporaceae family, native to woodland and forest.

Family
Pittosporaceae (Pittospor family)
Grows as
Shrub, Climber
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly once established; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or gritty soil.
Temperature
10–30 °C; protect below 0 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
WSW. & SW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Marianthus coeruleopunctatus, commonly known as blue-spotted marianthus, is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a twining shrub or climber with narrowly elliptic leaves and pale blue flowers sometimes with dark blue spots or lines, arranged in branched clusters.

Where it grows

Blue-spotted marianthus grows in woodland and forest near Perth, extending as far north as Mount Lesueur and as far east as Northam, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Other Marianthus plants

Marianthus aquilonaris · Painted Marianthus · Orange Bell Climber · Marianthus candidus · Marianthus drummondianus · Marianthus dryandra · Marianthus erubescens · Marianthus granulatus · Marianthus microphyllus · Marianthus mollis · Marianthus paralius · Marianthus ringens

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Marianthus coeruleopunctatus 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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