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Styphelia psiloclada

Styphelia psiloclada
Photo: Betty and Don Wood, CC BY 3.0 au

Styphelia psiloclada is a small shrub in the heath family, known only from two national parks on New South Wales' South Coast, where it grows on rocky ridges in forest. Its pink tubular flowers appear in summer, and it is best treated as a cool-climate native shrub.

Family
Ericaceae (Heather family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Part shade, Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; avoid waterlogging, as heaths resent wet roots.
Soil
Free-draining, acidic, sandy or gritty soil, low in phosphorus.
Temperature
Tolerates cool to mild conditions; protect from sustained frost and heat above 35 °C.
How easy
Hard
Native range
New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Styphelia psiloclada is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to a small area of New South Wales. It is an erect to spreading shrub, usually with oblong leaves and light pink to dark crimson-pink flowers. It is only known from two National Parks on the South Coast.

Where it grows

This species of Styphelia is only known from Wadbilliga and South East Forests National Parks, where it grows in forest on rocky ridges at altitudes between 900 and 1,130 m (2,950 and 3,710 ft).

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 psiloclada 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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