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Melaleuca stereophloia is a shrub in the myrtle family, native to southwestern Western Australia, growing up to about 4 m with hard, fibrous bark and needle-like leaves. It is similar to broombush and is mainly a plant of the wild, grown in gardens of Western Australia with well-drained soil and full sun.
Melaleuca stereophloia is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south west of Western Australia. It is similar to the broombush, Melaleuca uncinata with its needle-like leaves and heads of yellow to white flowers, but its bark is hard and fibrous rather than papery.
Melaleuca stereophloia occurs in and between the Wooramel Station, Meekatharra, Coorow and Koorda districts in the Avon Wheatbelt, Carnarvon, Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains, Murchison, Swan Coastal Plain and Yalgoo biogeographic regions where it grows in sand, clay or loam over laterite, granite or sandstone near watercourse, lakes, saltpans and saline areas.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Melaleuca stereophloia 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.
