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Ricinocarpos trichophorus is an erect, openly branched shrub of the spurge family, native to the south coast of Western Australia. It grows in shrubland among sandstone and granite boulders, so it needs good drainage and full sun to thrive.
Ricinocarpos trichophorus is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae and is endemic to the south coast of Western Australia. It is an erect, openly branched, monoecious shrub with linear to narrowly oblong leaves, and white flowers in a raceme with two female flowers and up to five male flowers.
This species grows in shrubland between sandstone and granite boulders from near the Fitzgerald River and south-west of Ravensthorpe, and north east of Esperance, in the Esperance Plains and Mallee bioregions of southern Western Australia.
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 trichophorus 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.
