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Micromyrtus greeniana

Micromyrtus greeniana is a small, spindly Australian shrub in the myrtle family, known only from a tiny area near Eurardy Reserve in Western Australia. It is a rare wild species rather than a commonly grown garden plant, and it is best grown in well-drained sandy soil in full sun.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out between waterings; it is adapted to dry, sandy conditions.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty mix, ideally similar to the yellow sand of its native habitat.
Temperature
Suited to a subtropical to warm-temperate climate; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
WSW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Micromyrtus greeniana is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to a small area in the west of Western Australia. It is a spindly shrub with linear to egg-shaped leaves and small white or cream-coloured flowers.

Where it grows

This species of micromyrtus grows is only known from a small area on Eurardy Reserve where it grows in yellow sand in mallee in the Geraldton Sandplains bioregion in the west of Western Australia.

Other Micromyrtus plants

Micromyrtus flava · Micromyrtus acuta · Micromyrtus albicans · Micromyrtus arenicola · Micromyrtus barbata · Micromyrtus blakelyi · Micromyrtus capricornia · Micromyrtus carinata · Micromyrtus chrysodema · Fringed Heath Myrtle · Micromyrtus clavata · Micromyrtus collina

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Micromyrtus greeniana 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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