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Pimelea ciliata

Pimelea ciliata
Photo: Allthingsnative, CC BY-SA 4.0

Pimelea ciliata, known as white banjine, is a small Western Australian shrub of 0.5 to 1 m with white or pale pink flowers from August to December. It grows best in full sun with good drainage, as it occurs naturally on hills and breakaways.

Family
Thymelaeaceae (Thymelae family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established and let the soil dry between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or loam mix; tolerates clay, sand, loam and lateritic soils.
Temperature
10–30 °C; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Pimelea ciliata, commonly known as white banjine, is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae. It is a small shrub with white flowers and is endemic to Western Australia.

Where it grows

White banjine grows in the south-west corner of Western Australia near Bindoon to near Margaret River and south-east to the Porongurup Range mostly on hills and breakaways in clay, sand, loam, granitic and lateritic soil.

Other Pimelea plants

Dune swale daphne · Pimelea aeruginosa · Alpine Rice Flower · Short Leaved Riceflower · Pimelea amabilis · Pimelea ammocharis · Pimelea angustifolia · Pimelea approximans · Pimelea aquilonia · Pimelea argentea · Pimelea avonensis · Bootlace Bush

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pimelea ciliata 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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