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Rinzia carnosa, the fleshy-leaved rinzia, is a small woody sub-shrub from southwest Western Australia that grows to about 1 metre, with thick leaves and white-pink flowers in September. It is a wild species of dry sandy-loam soils and is rarely grown in gardens, so care advice here is general.
Rinzia carnosa, commonly known as the fleshy leaved rinzia, is a plant species of the family Myrtaceae endemic to Western Australia.
The woody sub-shrub typically grows to a height of 0.7 to 1.3 metres (2.3 to 4.3 ft). It has many branches with long slim branchlets. The thick, appressed and pitted leaves have a elliptic to sub-orbicular shape with a length of 0.5 to 2.5 millimetres (0.020 to 0.098 in) and a width of 0.5 to 1 mm (0.020 to 0.039 in). It blooms in September producing white-pink flowers. The flowers are 5 to 7 mm (0.197 to 0.276 in) in diameter with five petals and occur in clusters at the end of the branchlets.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Rinzia carnosa 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.
