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Scaevola angulata

Scaevola angulata
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0

Scaevola angulata is a straggling, spreading perennial shrub from the Top End of the Northern Territory, Australia, growing up to about 1 m with white to pale blue flowers. It needs consistently moist, free-draining sandy soil and suits warm, humid conditions.

Family
Goodeniaceae (Goodeni family)
Grows as
Shrub, Perennial
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during the growing season, watering when the top layer starts to dry, and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or sandy-loam mix, ideally slightly acidic.
Temperature
18–32 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
New Guinea to N. Northern Territory
Climate
wet tropical

About

Scaevola angulata is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is endemic to the Northern Territory, Australia. It is a straggling, spreading perennial shrub with more or less sessile, egg-shaped to narrowly oblong leaves and spikes of white to pale blue flowers.

Where it grows

This species of Scaevola grows on damp, sandy soils derived from sandstone in near-coastal areas, in open forest in the Top End of the Northern Territory and on Melville Island.

Other Scaevola plants

Naupaka · Scaevola acacioides · Common Fanflower · White Fan Flower · Scaevola amblyanthera · Scaevola anchusifolia · Scaevola angustata · Scaevola archeriana · Scaevola argentea · Scaevola auriculata · Scaevola ballajupensis · Scaevola basedowii

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Scaevola angulata 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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