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Petrophile diversifolia

Petrophile diversifolia
Photo: Ian McMaster, CC BY 3.0

Petrophile diversifolia is a shrub from southwestern Western Australia, grown for its feathery foliage and creamy-white flower heads. It is a species of the Protea family found in sandy scrub and forest, and is more often grown in its native region than as a houseplant.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or acidic soil; avoid heavy clay and lime.
Temperature
Mild temperate to warm conditions; tolerates light frost but protect from hard freezes.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Petrophile diversifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to southwestern Western Australia. It is a shrub with pinnate, sharply-pointed leaves, and oval heads of densely hairy, white or creamy-white flowers.

Where it grows

This petrophile grows in sandy scrub, forest and shrubland between the Blackwood River and the Stirling Range as well as near Bremer Bay, in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren biogeographical regions of southwestern 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 diversifolia 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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