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Pimelea neoanglica
Poison pimelea is an erect, dioecious shrub native to inland eastern Australia, growing up to about 3 m with small greenish-yellow flower clusters. It is a toxic plant of clay soils and is best treated as a native shrub rather than a garden or houseplant.
Pimelea neoanglica, commonly known as poison pimelea or scanty riceflower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to inland areas of eastern Australia. It is an erect, dioecious shrub with narrowly elliptic leaves and heads of greenish-yellow flowers.
Poison pimelea mostly grows in clay soils on the Great Dividing Range and nearby ranges of eastern Australia from Carnarvon Station Reserve in Queensland to Gloucester in New South Wales.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pimelea neoanglica 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.
