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Synaphea tamminensis

Synaphea tamminensis is a small Western Australian shrub in the Proteaceae known only from one site near Tammin, with yellow flower spikes. It is a rare wild species with no established garden care, so the care fields below are general guesses for a sun-loving, drought-tolerant Australian shrub.

Family
Proteaceae (Protea family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained sandy loam or gritty mix; lateritic, low-fertility soils suit it.
Temperature
Mild to warm conditions; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Synaphea tamminensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is only known a single location near Tammin in the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with glabrous branchlets, deeply divided, hairy leaves, and spikes of yellow flowers.

Where it grows

This species of Synaphea is only known from the type location where it grows in sandy loam over laterite, in open kwongan.

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 tamminensis 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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