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Marianthus tenuis is a slender, twining shrub from southwest Western Australia, grown mainly as a novelty or native garden plant for its small white flowers. Its rare native range suggests it needs a dry, well-drained, sun-loving spot similar to its natural heath and woodland habitat.
Marianthus tenuis is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a slender, twining shrub with clustered, narrowly elliptic leaves and white flowers tinged with mauve and with darker spots on three of the five petals.
Marianthus tenuis grows in open coastal heath on limestone and in woodland on laterite south from the Darling Range in the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Marianthus tenuis 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.
