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Petrophile recurva is a small, erect Western Australian shrub in the Protea family, grown for its spherical heads of pale yellow to cream flowers. It needs very good drainage and full sun, and dislikes rich or wet soils.
Petrophile recurva is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to south-western Western Australia. It is an erect, many-branched shrub with needle-shaped, sharply-pointed leaves, and spherical heads of hairy pale yellow or cream-coloured flowers.
This petrophile grows in heath, shrubland and woodland, often with Banksia species, between Warradarge, Watheroo and Wannamal in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains and Swan Coastal Plain biogeographic regions of south-western Western Australia.
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 recurva 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.
