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Mountain Fire Bush

Seringia hillii

Mountain Fire Bush
Photo: Greg Tasney, CC BY 3.0
Family
Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
E. Australia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Seringia hillii is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a single-stemmed shrub with hairy new growth, egg-shaped leaves and usually mauve flowers arranged in groups of 2 to 9.

Where it grows

This species grows around cliffs and in rocky country near Stanthorpe, the Glasshouse Mountains and Mount Barney in south-east Queensland and on the coast and ranges north from Port Stephens in New South Wales.

Other Seringia plants

Seringia hermanniifolia · Seringia integrifolia · Seringia adenogyna · Seringia adenolasia · Lofty Fire Bush · Chocolate Fire Bush · Hillside Fire Bush · Inland Velvet Flower · Seringia denticulata · Fringed Fire Bush · Glandular Fire Bush · Seringia katatona

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Seringia hillii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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