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Pembertonia latisquamea

Pembertonia latisquamea
Photo: Kevin Thiele from Perth, Australia, CC BY 2.0

Pembertonia latisquamea is a daisy-family shrub or climber native to Western Australia, growing to about 1.45 m. It is a little-known species with few cultivation records, so care is largely general guidance for daisy-family shrubs in dry Australian conditions.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Shrub, Climber
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; allow soil to dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty mix; tolerates lime and poor soils.
Temperature
Likely tolerant of warm dry conditions; frost tolerance unknown, protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Western Australia

About

Pembertonia latisquamea is a species of daisy (Asteraceae), native to Western Australia. It was first described by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1878 as Brachyscome latisquamea and transferred to the genus, Pembertonia in 2004 by Philip Short.

It is a climber or a shrub growing to 1.45 metres high, on white sand, red sand, silty clay and limestone, and flowers from September to October or July.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pembertonia latisquamea 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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