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Seringia cacaobrunnea
Chocolate fire-bush is a bushy, suckering shrub from south-west Western Australia, valued for its purple flowers and dark brown new growth. It is a species (Seringia cacaobrunnea) in the mallow family, and it needs well-drained soil and full sun to thrive.
Seringia cacaobrunnea, commonly known as chocolate fire-bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a bushy shrub with hairy new growth, oblong to elliptic leaves and purple flowers in groups of 3 to 11.
Chocolate fire-bush grows in mallee heath and woodland in isolated populations near Ravensthorpe, Lake King, Mukinbudin and east of Salmon Gums in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains and Mallee bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
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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.
