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Thysanotus chinensis
Thysanotus chinensis is a small tufted perennial herb from tropical Asia and northern Australia, grown mainly as a wildflower in dry tropical grassland. It needs a bright, open, seasonally dry spot with good drainage.
Thysanotus chinensis is a species of flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family, and is native to parts of China, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, and some Australian states. It is a tufted, rhizomatous, perennial herb, with narrow, flat leaves, umbels of 20 to 50 purple flowers with linear sepals, elliptic, fringed petals, six stamens and a straight style.
This species grows in open, grassy situations in forest, grassland, on the edges of depressions and along rivers, in a variety of soil types, in tropical northern regions of Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland in Australia. It also occurs in New Guinea, southern China, Hong Kong, northern Vietnam, southern Thailand, northern Malay Peninsula, Luzon in the Philippines, and on Sulawesi, Flores and Aru Islands in Indonesia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thysanotus chinensis 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.
