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Psammomoya choretroides

Psammomoya choretroides
Photo: Kevin Thiele from Perth, Australia, CC BY 2.0

Psammomoya choretroides is a small, dwarf shrub from south-west Western Australia with quadrangular stems and minute scale-like leaves. It is a wild species with little horticultural history, so growing it is mostly a matter of mimicking its dry, sandy native habitat.

Family
Celastraceae (Celastr family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty mix.
Temperature
Mild to warm, roughly 10–30 °C; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Psammomoya choretroides is a small shrub in the Celastraceae family, endemic to the south west of Western Australia. It was first described by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1889 as Logania choretroides, but was transferred to the genus, Psammomoya, in 1904 by Ludwig Diels and Ludwig Eduard Theodor Loesener.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Psammomoya choretroides 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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