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Tetratheca procumbens, mountain pink-bells, is a low, spreading shrub native to cool mountain heath and bogs in south-eastern Australia and Tasmania. It is best grown cool and moist, with reliable drainage, and is seldom found in cultivation.
Tetratheca procumbens, also known as mountain pink-bells, is a species of flowering plant in the quandong family that is endemic to Australia.
The species is found in Victoria, in mountain country north of Heyfield, as well as in Tasmania, where the plants grow in low subalpine heathland on peat soils or sphagnum near bogs and streams.
Tetratheca affinis · Tetratheca aphylla · Mountain Pink Bells · Pink Bells · Tetratheca confertifolia · Tetratheca decora · Tetratheca deltoidea · Tetratheca efoliata · Tetratheca ericifolia · Tetratheca erubescens · Tetratheca exasperata · Tetratheca fasciculata
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tetratheca procumbens 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.
