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Micromyrtus racemosa

Micromyrtus racemosa
Photo: Kevin Thiele from Perth, Australia, CC BY 2.0

Micromyrtus racemosa is a small shrub in the myrtle family, endemic to south-western Western Australia, grown mainly as a native plant in dry, gravelly, rocky ground. It is a wild species rarely cultivated, so care is inferred from its native habitat.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; it is adapted to dry conditions and wet soil can harm it.
Soil
Free-draining gravelly or sandy soil, low in nutrients.
Temperature
Mild Mediterranean-type climate; tolerates warm dry summers and cool winters, protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Micromyrtus racemosa is species of the flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with relatively thick, narrowly egg-shaped leaves, sometimes with the narrower end toward the base, and white, cream-coloured or yellow flowers 2.5–4.0 mm (0.098–0.157 in) in diameter.

Where it grows

This species of micromyrtus grows in gravelly soils in rocky habitats, often in shrubland and occurs between the Mullewa, Kondinin and Parker Range areas in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains, Mallee, Murchison and Yalgoo bioregions of south-western 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 racemosa 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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