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White featherflower

Verticordia albida

White featherflower is a shrub from south-west Western Australia, grown for its scented white flowers with pink centres. It is hard to propagate from cuttings, so it is mostly sold grafted or tissue-cultured.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but let the soil dry out between waterings, as native Australian shrubs dislike wet roots.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gravelly soil with low fertility; avoid heavy clay and rich potting mixes.
Temperature
Suits a mild subtropical to Mediterranean climate; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Verticordia albida is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with one main stem with many branches and spike-like groups of scented, white feathery flowers with a pink centre.

How to grow it

It is difficult to propagate this verticordia from cuttings but it has been successfully grafted onto Chamelaucium uncinatum rootstock. Tissue culture has also been used successfully at Kings Park, Western Australia.

Where it grows

This verticordia grows in sand near or over gravel, often with other verticordias in woodland or shrubland in a small area near Three Springs in the Avon Wheatbelt and Geraldton Sandplains biogeographic regions.

Other Verticordia plants

Verticordia acerosa · Verticordia aereiflora · Verticordia amphigia · Verticordia apecta · Verticordia argentea · Verticordia attenuata · Verticordia aurea · Verticordia auriculata · Verticordia bifimbriata · Verticordia blepharophylla · Verticordia brachypoda · Verticordia brevifolia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Verticordia albida 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.

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