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Pimelea leptospermoides, known as serpentine rice flower, is a small shrub native to Queensland that grows on serpentine (nickel-rich) soils. It is a wild species of dry woodland and is not commonly grown in gardens.
Pimelea leptospermoides, commonly known as serpentine rice flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a shrub with narrowly egg-shaped to elliptic leaves and white, tube-shaped flowers arranged in groups of up to 7.
This pimelea grows on stony hillsides and in the understory of shrubby woodland in serpentine soils, from near Marlborough to near Rockhampton in north Queensland. Eucalyptus fibrosa subsp. fibrosa and Corymbia xanthope are indicators of serpentine soils, and commonly co-occur with Pimelea leptospermoides, which actively accumulates large amounts of nickel. Subspecies bowmanni is found west of Canoona, and subsp. leptospermoides occurs between Canoona and Marlborough.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pimelea leptospermoides 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.
