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Styphelia ciliosa

Styphelia ciliosa
Photo: Jean and Fred, CC BY 2.0

Styphelia ciliosa is a small erect shrub from Western Australia, growing up to about 1.5 m, with white flowers in leaf axils. It is native to Banksia woodland and is not a common cultivated plant, so care guidance is based on general knowledge of Styphelia and heath-family shrubs.

Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water moderately while establishing, then let the top of the soil dry between waterings; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty acidic mix.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates mild frost but protect from hard freezes.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Styphelia ciliosa is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to a small area of Western Australia. It is usually an erect shrub with narrowly elliptic to narrowly egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and white flowers usually arranged in pairs in leaf axils.

Where it grows

This styphelia grows in Banksia woodland between the Warradarge area and Badgingarra, and around Keysbrook, in the Geraldton Sandplains and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Other Styphelia plants

Styphelia foliosa · Styphelia humifusa · Styphelia pallida · Astroloma · Coleanthera · Styphelia allittii · Styphelia brevicuspis · Styphelia breviflora · Styphelia conchifolia · Styphelia concinna · Styphelia conferta · Styphelia conostephioides

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Styphelia ciliosa 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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