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Petrophile pulchella
Conesticks is a shrub in the Protea family native to eastern Australia, grown for its cream, silky-hairy flower heads and needle-like leaves. It needs sharp drainage and sun, and is best suited to native and dry-climate gardens.
Petrophile pulchella, commonly known as conesticks, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. The leaves are divided with needle-shaped but soft pinnae, the flowers silky-hairy, cream-coloured and arranged in oval heads and the fruit are arranged in oval heads.
Petrophile pulchella is found from south-eastern Queensland and south along the coast and adjacent tablelands to Jervis Bay in New South Wales. It often grows with trees such as Sydney peppermint (Eucalyptus piperita), smooth-barked apple (Angophora costata) or more open woodland e.g. with scribbly gum (Eucalyptus sclerophylla), silvertop ash (E. sieberi) or with shrubs such as mountain devil (Lambertia formosa), broad-leaved drumsticks (Isopogon anemonifolius) and paperbark tea-tree (Leptospermum trinervium).
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 pulchella 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.
