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Petrophile clavata

Petrophile clavata is a small shrub in the Protea family, endemic to south-west Western Australia, grown mainly for its spherical heads of cream flowers. It suits well-drained, sandy soil and full sun, and is best kept as a plant of its native habitat rather than a common garden subject.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; avoid waterlogging and never let it sit wet.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy, low-nutrient soil; avoid phosphorus-rich fertilisers.
Temperature
Tolerates mild to warm temperatures; protect from prolonged frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Petrophile clavata 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 curved, needle-shaped, sharply-pointed leaves and spherical heads of hairy, cream-coloured to very pale yellow flowers.

Where it grows

This petrophile grows in heathland on sand and is known from near Coorow and Calingiri in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains and Jarrah Forest biogeographic regions in the southwest of Western Australia.

Other Petrophile plants

Petrophile acicularis · Petrophile aculeata · Petrophile anceps · Petrophile antecedens · Petrophile arcuata · Petrophile aspera · Petrophile axillaris · Granite Petrophile · Petrophile biternata · Petrophile brevifolia · Conesticks · Petrophile carduacea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Petrophile clavata 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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