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Tiny Thomasia

Thomasia pygmaea

Tiny Thomasia
Photo: Melburnian, CC BY 3.0
Family
Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Thomasia pygmaea, commonly known as tiny thomasia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and is endemic to southern Western Australia. It is a low, dense, compact shrub with broadly heart-shaped to egg-shaped or more or less round leaves and pink to purple flowers.

How to grow it

Tiny thomasia is described as an attractive small shrub, useful for edging, container growing or in rockeries. It requires a light soil with good drainage and tolerates some shade and light frost.

Where it grows

This thomasia grows in woodland and shrubland between the south of the Stirling Range and the west of Esperance in the Esperance Plains and Mallee bioregions of southern Western Australia.

Other Thomasia plants

Narrow Leaved Thomasia · Thomasia brachystachys · Thomasia cognata · Thomasia dielsii · Thomasia discolor · Thomasia foliosa · Thomasia formosa · Thomasia gardneri · Thomasia glabripetala · Large Flowered Thomasia · Thomasia macrocalyx · Large Fruited Thomasia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thomasia pygmaea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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