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Ptilotus robynsianus, Robyns pussy-tail, is a small, rounded, densely hairy shrub from arid inland Australia with pink to purple flower spikes. It is known only from two historic collections, so it is rarely grown and little is documented about cultivation.
Ptilotus robynsianus, commonly known as Robyns pussy-tail, is a species of flowering plant of the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to inland Australia. It is sometimes a rounded shrub with egg-shaped or elliptic, densely hairy leaves and pink to purple flowers. It is only known from two collections in the 1950's.
This species of Ptilotus is only known from two collections in the 1950's, one from the Flinders Ranges in South Australia and the other from Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ptilotus robynsianus 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.
