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Synaphea canaliculata

Synaphea canaliculata is a low, widely spreading shrub from south-west Western Australia, grown for its yellow flower spikes and finely divided leaves. It suits well-drained, sandy soils in full sun and needs a dry, Mediterranean-type climate.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; allow soil to dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy loam or sandy mix; avoid heavy, wet clay.
Temperature
Mild to warm, roughly 10-30 °C; tolerates light frost but protect from hard freezes.
How easy
Hard
Native range
S. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Synaphea canaliculata is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with widely spreading, pinnatipartite leaves usually with 3 to 7 pairs of lobes, and more or less crowded yellow flowers.

Where it grows

This species of Synaphea grows in sandy loam in kwongan and is locally common in a small area between Newdegate and Lake King in the Esperance Plains and Mallee bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

Other Synaphea plants

Synaphea acutiloba · Synaphea aephynsa · Synaphea bifurcata · Synaphea boyaginensis · Synaphea brachyceras · Synaphea cervifolia · Synaphea constricta · Synaphea cuneata · Synaphea damopsis · Synaphea decorticans · Synaphea decumbens · Synaphea diabolica

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Synaphea canaliculata 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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