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Synaphea favosa

Synaphea favosa is a low, spreading Western Australian shrub in the Proteaceae with yellow flower spikes, native to sandy kwongan heath in the south-west. It is rarely grown outside its native range and needs good drainage and full sun.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; allow soil to dry out between waterings.
Soil
Sandy, free-draining, low-nutrient soil; avoid phosphorus-rich fertilisers.
Temperature
Mild Mediterranean-type conditions; protect from frost below about -5 °C.
How easy
Hard
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Synaphea favosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a low, spreading shrub with mostly lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves with the lower end towards the base, spikes of rather openly spaced yellow flowers and egg-shaped fruit.

Where it grows

This species of Synaphea grows in sand over gravel or sandstone in kwongan from Rocky Gully to Denmark and east to Bremer Bay including the Stirling Range in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Warren bioregion of south-western Western Australia.

Other Synaphea plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Synaphea favosa 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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