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Ricinocarpos linearifolius

Ricinocarpos linearifolius
Photo: Mark Marathon, CC BY-SA 4.0

Ricinocarpos linearifolius is a small, hairy, native Australian shrub of the spurge family, growing to about 1 m with narrow leaves and white flowers. It is a heath and woodland plant of eastern Queensland and northern New South Wales, and is rarely grown in gardens.

Family
Euphorbiaceae (Spurge family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly once established; it tolerates dry spells typical of its native woodland habitat.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gravelly soil; poor soils are fine.
Temperature
10–30 °C; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
EC. & SE. Queensland to NE. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Ricinocarpos linearifolius is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a monoecious or dioecious shrub with hairy young branchlets, linear leaves and white flowers, arranged either singly, with two to four male flowers, or a single female flower surrounded by up to three male flowers.

Where it grows

This species grows in heath, woodland and open forest between Jericho, Biggenden and Inglewood in Queensland, and near Warialda in New South Wales.

Other Ricinocarpos plants

Ricinocarpos bowmanii · Ricinocarpos brevis · Ricinocarpos caniana · Ricinocarpos crispatus · Ricinocarpos cyanescens · Ricinocarpos glaucus · Ricinocarpos gloria-medii · Ricinocarpos graniticus · Ricinocarpos ledifolius · Ricinocarpos marginatus · Ricinocarpos megalocarpus · Ricinocarpos muricatus

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ricinocarpos linearifolius 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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