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Melaleuca villosisepala

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

Melaleuca villosisepala is a small shrub from south-west Western Australia, grown for its pink to mauve bottlebrush-like flower heads. It is a species, not a genus, and is native to dry, sandy-clay roadside country.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then allow the soil to dry between waterings; tolerates dry conditions once established.
Soil
Well-drained soil, tolerant of clay-loam; avoid waterlogging.
Temperature
Hardy in mild to warm climates; protect from prolonged frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Melaleuca villosisepala is a shrub in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with narrow leaves, heads of pink to mauve flowers that fade to white and is similar to Melaleuca wonganensis except that its heads of flowers are smaller and pinkish rather than deep purple.

Where it grows

This melaleuca occurs from the Southern Cross-Coolgardie districts, south to the Stirling Range-Ravensthorpe districts in the Esperance Plains biogeographical zone. It grows in red-brown clay-loam, often in roadside remnant vegetation.

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 villosisepala 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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