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Verticordia fimbrilepis subsp. fimbrilepis

Verticordia fimbrilepis subsp. fimbrilepis
Photo: Jean and Fred from Perth, Australia, CC BY 2.0
Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub

About

Verticordia fimbrilepis subsp. fimbrilepis is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a small bushy shrub with one openly branched main stem at its base, small, pointed leaves and rounded groups of pink flowers near the ends of the branches.

How to grow it

This subspecies of V. fimbrilepis is a small open shrub with dainty pink flowers but has only been successfully propagated and grown at Kings Park, apart from a single specimen in Sydney.

Where it grows

This verticordia grows in low-level sandy areas in heath, shrubland and wandoo woodland in scattered areas around Woodanilling, near Brookton and Narrogin in the Avon Wheatbelt and Jarrah Forest biogeographic regions.

Other Verticordia plants

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

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

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