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Ricinocarpos muricatus

Ricinocarpos muricatus
Photo: Kevin R. Thiele, CC BY 3.0 au

Ricinocarpos muricatus is a sticky, spreading shrub from south-western Western Australia, grown mainly in native or dryland gardens. The key to growing it is full sun and very well-drained, sandy soil, as it is adapted to arid heath and mallee country.

Family
Euphorbiaceae (Spurge family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established and let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty soil; poor, sandy native soils suit it.
Temperature
Tolerates hot, dry summers and mild winters; protect from frost below about -5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
W. & S. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Ricinocarpos muricatus is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect to spreading, sticky, monoecious shrub with linear leaves and yellow flowers arranged in a raceme, with one or two female flowers surrounded by 8 to 12 male flowers.

Where it grows

This species grows in shrubland, heath and mallee from near the Murchison River to near Esperance in the Avon Wheatbelt, Carnarvon, Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains, Mallee, Murchison and Yalgoo bioregions of south-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 marginatus · Ricinocarpos megalocarpus

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ricinocarpos muricatus 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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