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Birch Pomaderris

Pomaderris betulina

Birch Pomaderris
Photo: Ken Thomas, CC BY 3.0

Birch pomaderris is a shrub of south-eastern Australian forest and streamside woodland, growing 1 to 4 m tall with yellowish flowers in spring. It is a species rather than a genus, and garden care is mostly drawn from general knowledge of Australian native shrubs.

Family
Rhamnaceae (Rhamn family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Part shade, Full sun
Water
Water regularly when young and during dry spells, then reduce once established, as it naturally grows near streams but tolerates drier soils.
Soil
Well-drained, moist loam or sandy loam; tolerates a range of native soils.
Temperature
5–30 °C; tolerates cool winters and frost, protect young plants from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. Queensland to E. Victoria
Climate
subtropical

About

Pomaderris betulina, commonly known as birch pomaderris, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rhamnaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a shrub with hairy young stems, lance-shaped to oblong or elliptic leaves, and yellowish flowers.

Where it grows

Birch pomaderris grows in forest, woodland and shrubland, often near streams, from near Torrington in New South Wales to north-eastern Victoria. Subspecies actensis is restricted to a few locations in the Australian Capital Territory and to near Burrinjuck in New South Wales.

Other Pomaderris plants

Pomaderris adnata · Yellow Pomaderris · Pomaderris angustifolia · Hazel Pomaderris · Silver Pomaderris · Hazel Pomaderris · Pomaderris aurea · Pomaderris bodalla · Pomaderris brevifolia · Pomaderris briagolensis · Pomaderris brogoensis · Pomaderris brunnea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pomaderris betulina 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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