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Verticordia cunninghamii
Tree featherflower is a spindly shrub or small tree from northern Australia, grown for its sweetly scented cream to white feathery flowers. It is difficult to propagate and grow in cultivation, and its needs are not fully understood.
Verticordia cunninghamii, commonly known as tree featherflower or liandu, is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. It is a spindly shrub or small tree with narrow leaves and cream to white, sweetly scented, feathery flowers. It is native to the Northern Territory, Queensland, and northern Western Australia.
Verticordia cunninghamii is a difficult plant to propagate and grow in cultivation and its requirements are not yet fully understood.
This verticordia has a widespread distribution in the north of Western Australia, including the Kimberley and in northern regions of the Northern Territory, including in Kakadu National Park. The species is usually associated with areas of seasonal flooding and watercourses, or along creeks, and has a preference for loam or gravel at exposed sandstone, growing in the white, or grey, or red sands there.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Verticordia cunninghamii 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.
