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Seringia adenogyna, skinny-leaved fire-bush, is a small erect shrub from south-west Western Australia, grown mainly for its purple flowers. It needs well-drained soil and full sun to suit its native dry mallee and heath habitat.
Seringia adenogyna, commonly known as skinny-leaved fire-bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with hairy new growth, linear to narrowly oblong leaves and purple flowers usually in groups of 2 to 4.
Skinny-leaved fire-bush grows in mallee, shrubland and heath in widely separated areas near Cape Riche, Ongerup, Hyden and Lake King in the Coolgardie, Mallee and Esperance Plains bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Seringia adenogyna 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.
