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Styphelia disjuncta

Styphelia disjuncta is a small erect shrub from south-western Western Australia, growing to about 60 cm with white tubular flowers in leaf axils. It is rarely cultivated, so care advice is drawn from general knowledge of Australian heath plants.

Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then sparingly; avoid waterlogging as it is adapted to dry sandy soils.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or sandy loam, acidic to neutral.
Temperature
Mild subtropical to Mediterranean conditions; tolerates light frost, protect below about -5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Styphelia disjuncta is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to a small area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with egg-shaped to narrowly egg-shaped leaves, and white, tube-shaped flowers arranged singly in leaf axils.

Where it grows

This styphelia grows in sand or sandy loam in the Dumbleyung and Ongerup areas in heath or open mallee woodland in the Esperance Plains and Mallee 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 disjuncta 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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