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Pimelea sulphurea

Pimelea sulphurea
Photo: Margaret Donald from Sydney, Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0

Pimelea sulphurea, known as yellow banjine, is a small, spindly native shrub from south-west Western Australia with clusters of pendulous yellow flowers from July to November. It grows best in sandy, well-drained soil in full sun.

Family
Thymelaeaceae (Thymelae family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established, letting the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or sandy loam mix.
Temperature
Mild to warm climates; protect from heavy frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Pimelea sulphurea, commonly known as yellow banjine, is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, spindly or open shrub with narrowly elliptic to more or less round leaves, and compact heads of pendulous, yellow flowers surrounded by 3 or more pairs of green to yellowish involucral bracts.

Where it grows

Yellow banjine usually grows on sand in woodland or shrubland between Eneabba, Fitzgerald River National Park and Southern Cross in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

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 sulphurea 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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