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Melaleuca croxfordiae

Melaleuca croxfordiae
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Melaleuca croxfordiae is a paperbark shrub or small tree from south-west Western Australia that grows in winter-wet places. It is grown mainly as a moisture-loving garden or landscape shrub in mild climates.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep soil consistently moist, especially in its first years; it tolerates wet winter ground.
Soil
Sandy, free-draining but moisture-retentive soil, acidic to neutral; tolerates sand over granite.
Temperature
10–30 °C; protect from hard frost below about -5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Melaleuca croxfordiae is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the far south-west of corner Western Australia. It is a paperbark, usually growing in winter-wet places, with long, narrow leaves and a few small creamy coloured flower heads in early summer.

Where it grows

Melaleuca croxfordiae occurs in the near the coast between Manjimup and Albany in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Warren biogeographic regions. It grows in sandy soils, often over granite in swamps and coastal heath.

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 croxfordiae 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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