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Phebalium canaliculatum

Phebalium canaliculatum
Photo: Kevin Thiele from Perth, Australia, CC BY 2.0

Phebalium canaliculatum is an erect shrub from southwest Western Australia, grown for its small dark pink to pale mauve flower clusters. It needs well-drained, sandy soil and full sun to thrive, and is a native of dry sandplains and hillslopes.

Family
Rutaceae (Citrus family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established, letting the soil dry between waterings, and avoid wet feet.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty mix; acidic to neutral soil suits native Western Australian plants.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates light frost but protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Phebalium canaliculatum is a species of erect shrub that is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is more or less covered with silvery and rust-coloured scales and has thin, cylindrical leaves and dark pink to pale mauve flowers in umbels on the ends of branches.

Where it grows

Phebalium canaliculatum grows on sandplains and hillslopes, sometimes on rock outcrops, in shrubland or mallee between Wongan Hills, Sandstone and Kalgoorlie.

Other Phebalium plants

Phebalium appressum · Phebalium bifidum · Phebalium brachycalyx · Phebalium brevifolium · Desert Phebalium · Phebalium clavatum · Davies' Wax Flower · Phebalium distans · Phebalium drummondii · Phebalium elegans · Phebalium festivum · Phebalium filifolium

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Phebalium canaliculatum 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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