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Melaleuca subtrigona

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

Melaleuca subtrigona is a small shrub from south-west Western Australia, grown for its pink to purple pom-pom flowers in spring and early summer. It needs full sun and well-drained soil and tolerates dry conditions once established.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then sparingly; let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or lateritic soil; tolerates poor, nutrient-low ground.
Temperature
10-35 °C; frost-tender, protect below about 0 °C.
How easy
Easy
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Melaleuca subtrigona is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a small shrub with warty leaves and heads of "pom-pom" flowers in spring and early summer.

Where it grows

Melaleuca sieberi occurs in and between the Brookton, Stirling Range and Ravensthorpe districts in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions. It grows in sand, clay and laterite on sandplains and hills.

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 subtrigona 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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