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Ricinocarpos marginatus

Ricinocarpos marginatus is a small erect shrub from the sandstone country of the northern Kimberley in north-west Western Australia. It is rarely grown, and it suits warm, dry climates with free-draining soil.

Family
Euphorbiaceae (Spurge family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established, letting the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty soil.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect from frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
N. Western Australia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Ricinocarpos marginatus is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae and is endemic to the north-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, monoecious shrub with narrowly elliptic leaves and white flowers arranged in groups of male flowers, or up to three female flowers surrounded by many male flowers.

Where it grows

This species grows in woodland amongst sandstone rocks in the Northern Kimberley bioregion of north-western Western Australia.

Other Ricinocarpos plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ricinocarpos marginatus 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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