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Ricinocarpos psilocladus

Ricinocarpos psilocladus
Photo: Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0

Ricinocarpos psilocladus is an erect, open shrub up to about 1.8 m tall, native to near-coastal heath and shrubland on Western Australia's west coast between Geraldton and Northampton. It is a wild species rather than a common garden plant, so care advice is general to the genus.

Family
Euphorbiaceae (Spurge family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; it is adapted to dry sandy heath and does not like waterlogging.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or sandplain soil; well-drained mixes suit pot culture.
Temperature
Mild temperate to subtropical conditions; protect from frost below about -2 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
WSW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Ricinocarpos psilocladus is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae and is endemic to the west coast of Western Australia. It is an erect, open, monoecious or dioecious shrub with linear to narrowly oblong or narrowly egg-shaped leaves, and white or yellow flowers arranged singly, or with two to five male flowers, or a single female flower surrounded by up to three male flowers.

Where it grows

Ricinocarpos psilocladus grows in heath and shrubland, mainly in near-coastal areas between Geraldton and Northampton in the Avon Wheatbelt and Geraldton Sandplains bioregions of 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 psilocladus 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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