Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Spiked Scholtzia

Scholtzia involucrata

Spiked Scholtzia
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0

Spiked scholtzia is a small evergreen shrub from Western Australia, growing 0.2 to 1.5 metres tall with tiny leaves and pink-white flowers from November to May. It is a wild native rather than a common garden plant, so care advice is general.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established, letting the soil dry between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or gritty soil; tolerates poor, nutrient-low ground.
Temperature
10–35 °C; protect from frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
WSW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Scholtzia involucrata, commonly known as spiked scholtzia, is a shrub species in the family Myrtaceae that is endemic to Western Australia.

The erect, spreading to decumbent shrub typically grows to a height of 0.2 to 1.5 metres (0.7 to 4.9 ft). The evergreen leaves are 4 to 9 millimetres (0.157 to 0.354 in) in length. It blooms between November and May producing pink-white flowers. Each flower has a diameter of 8 mm (0.315 in).

Other Scholtzia plants

Scholtzia capitata · Scholtzia ciliata · Scholtzia drummondii · Scholtzia eatoniana · Scholtzia laxiflora · Scholtzia leptantha · Spiked Scholtzia · Pink Scholtzia · Scholtzia parviflora · Scholtzia spatulata · Scholtzia teretifolia · Scholtzia uberiflora

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Scholtzia involucrata 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.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…