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Pimelea venosa

Pimelea venosa
Photo: Geoff Derrin, CC BY-SA 4.0

Pimelea venosa, known as Bolivia Hill rice-flower, is a rare erect shrub endemic to a small area of the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia. It is grown mainly by specialist native plant collectors, and its rarity and dependence on fire-triggered seedling flushes make it a conservation concern rather than a common garden plant.

Family
Thymelaeaceae (Thymelae family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly once established; it is adapted to a seasonal climate with dry spells.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or gravelly soil; tolerates poor soils.
Temperature
10–30 °C; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Pimelea venosa, commonly known as Bolivia Hill rice-flower, is a flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with densely long-hairy stems and leaves, elliptic to lance-shaped leaves and small groups of white flowers.

Where it grows

Bolivia Hill rice-flower is only known from near Bolivia on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales but was previously recorded near Tenterfield and 100 km (62 mi) east of this region. Surveys in 1999 and after a bushfire in 2012 found no plants in known sites but after a low intensity fire in late 2019, about 200 seedlings were found.

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 venosa 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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