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Petrophile biloba
Granite petrophile is a shrub from south-west Western Australia, growing 1 to 2 m tall with pinnately divided leaves and oval heads of grey to pink flowers. It is grown in full sun with excellent drainage, as is typical for Western Australian heath plants.
Petrophile biloba, commonly known as granite petrophile, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with pinnately-divided leaves with sharply-pointed tips, and oval heads of hairy, mostly grey to pink flowers.
This petrophile grows in heath over laterite from near the Canning River to near Wannamal in the Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographical regions of southwestern Western Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Petrophile biloba 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.
