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Thysanotus banksii is a clumping perennial herb from the tuberous Asparagaceae family, native to Queensland and southern New Guinea, with purple fringed flowers. It is a wild native rather than a common garden plant, and it needs a seasonally dry, tropical to subtropical setting.
Thysanotus banksii is a species of flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family, and is native to Australia and New Guinea. It is a perennial herb with a small rootstock, linear leaves, and umbels of purple flowers with elliptic, fringed petals, lance-shaped sepals and six stamens.
This species of Thysanotus grows in forest and moist tea-tree flats and on pebbly ridges from near Rockingham Bay to Cape York, the Gulf of Carpentaria in Queensland, and islands in the Torres Strait. It also occurs in southern New Guinea.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thysanotus banksii 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.
