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Petrophile wonganensis is a dense, needle-leaved shrub from the Wongan Hills area of south-west Western Australia, bearing round heads of yellow, hairy flowers. It is a species of the Protea family, grown mainly in Australian native gardens rather than as a common houseplant.
Petrophile wonganensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a dense shrub with blunt, needle-shaped leaves, and more or less spherical heads of hairy, yellow flowers.
This petrophile mainly occurs near Wongan Hills and towards Cowcowing, in the Avon Wheatbelt biogeographic region. It grows in heath and shrubland in sand or sandy loam.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Petrophile wonganensis 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.
