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Melaleuca stramentosa

Melaleuca stramentosa is a small, densely leafed bushy shrub, up to about 1.5 m tall, native to south-west Western Australia, with pink to purple flower heads in spring. It is grown mainly in gardens and native plantings where it can be kept in free-draining, sandy soil in full sun.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then let the soil dry out between waterings; it tolerates dry conditions once established.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gravelly soil; dislikes wet, heavy or waterlogged ground.
Temperature
Suited to mild, subtropical to Mediterranean climates; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Melaleuca stramentosa is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a small, bushy shrub similar to Melaleuca similis with its cylindrical leaves and heads of pink to purple flowers but differs in have matted, woolly hairs around the flowers and on the young leaves.

Where it grows

This melaleuca occurs in the Ravensthorpe district in the Esperance Plains biogeographic region where it grows in sand or gravel in heath on plains.

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 stramentosa 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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