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Melaleuca camptoclada

Melaleuca camptoclada
Photo: Geoff Derrin, CC BY-SA 4.0

Melaleuca camptoclada is a shrub of the myrtle family, native to southwest Western Australia, growing to about 3 m with mauve bottlebrush-like flower heads in spring. It is grown mainly in dry, well-drained native plantings.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then let the soil dry between waterings; tolerates dry conditions once mature.
Soil
Well-drained gravelly sand or clay loam; tolerates poor soils.
Temperature
10–30 °C; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Melaleuca camptoclada is a shrub in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It was first described in 1990 in a review of the genus Melaleuca when the species Melaleuca laxiflora at that time was found to comprise ten species. Two of those species were new - M. camptoclada and M. ctenoides.

Where it grows

This melaleuca occurs in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Warren biogeographic regions. It grows in gravelly sand and clay loam.

Other Melaleuca plants

Kalbarri Beaufortia · Dark Beaufortia · Badgingarra Beaufortia · Beaufortia bracteosa · Beaufortia burbidgeae · Stirling Range Bottlebrush · Gravel Bottlebrush · Elegant Beaufortia · Beaufortia empetrifolia · Beaufortia eriocephala · Grey Leaved Beaufortia · Beaufortia interstans

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Melaleuca camptoclada 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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