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Marianthus sylvaticus

Marianthus sylvaticus is a slender twining climber from the forests of south-western Western Australia, known from a very small area near Walpole. It is a wild species of the Pittosporaceae family, with blue and white flowers and linear leaves, and is rarely grown in cultivation.

Family
Pittosporaceae (Pittospor family)
Grows as
Climber
Light
Part shade
Water
Water regularly during dry spells and keep the root zone evenly moist but never waterlogged.
Soil
Free-draining, slightly acidic, humus-rich soil or a peaty, sandy mix.
Temperature
10–25 °C; protect from frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Marianthus sylvaticus is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to a small area in the southwest of Western Australia. It is a slender climber with clustered, toothed, linear leaves and blue and white flowers with purple veins.

Where it grows

This species of shrub grows in tall forest and is only known from near Walpole in the Jarrah Forest and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Other Marianthus plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Marianthus sylvaticus 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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