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Petrophile misturata

Petrophile misturata
Photo: Anita Barley, CC BY 3.0 au

Petrophile misturata is a small shrub from the Proteaceae family, native to the Avon Wheatbelt of south-west Western Australia, where it grows in sand. It is rarely grown outside its native range, and the key to growing it is well-drained sandy soil and full sun, as with other Western Australian Petrophile species.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; avoid waterlogging and keep roots from sitting wet.
Soil
Free-draining sandy, acidic to neutral soil with low phosphorus.
Temperature
Mild Mediterranean-type conditions; tolerates light frost once established, protect from hard frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
SW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Petrophile misturata 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 simple and pinnate, needle-shaped leaves and spherical heads of hairy, dull yellow flowers.

Where it grows

This petrophile grows in sand mostly near Quairading, sometimes near Tammin and between Hines Hill and Bruce Rock, in the Avon Wheatbelt biogeographic region 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 misturata 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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