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Tetratheca exasperata is a small, low shrub from south-west Western Australia, growing 10 to 35 cm tall with dark pink to pink-purple flowers. It is a Western Australian wildflower that needs free-draining soil and full sun, and is rarely grown outside its native range.
Tetratheca exasperata is a species of flowering plant in the quandong family that is endemic to Australia.
The range of the species lies within the Avon Wheatbelt, Jarrah Forest and Warren IBRA bioregions of south-west Western Australia, some 200–300 km south to south-east of the city of Perth. The plants grow on white-grey sand, sandy loam, and orange-brown gravelly loam soils.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tetratheca exasperata 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.
