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Muehlenbeckia tuggeranong
Tuggeranong lignum is a small, sprawling shrub forming a loose tangle of wiry stems, native only to a stretch of the Murrumbidgee River near Tuggeranong in the Australian Capital Territory. It is listed as Endangered, so it is mainly of interest to botanists and native-plant conservation rather than general home gardening.
Muehlenbeckia tuggeranong, commonly known as Tuggeranong lignum, is a species of flowering plant in the family Polygonaceae. It is a low, sprawling shrub capable of developing into a wiry mass. M. tuggeranong is endemic to the Australian Capital Territory along the eastern bank of the Murrumbidgee River, south of Canberra. It is listed as Endangered under ACT legislation.
Muehlenbeckia tuggeranong has been found only on flood terraces of the eastern banks of the Murrumbidgee River Corridor, near the township of Tuggeranong, at the southern edge of the Canberra district. The plants grow on silty, sandy and gravelly soil or in the crevices of rocks bordering the river. The population's sole identified habitat is known to be periodically flooded.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Muehlenbeckia tuggeranong 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.
