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Verticordia inclusa

Verticordia inclusa
Photo: Geoff Derrin, CC BY-SA 4.0

Verticordia inclusa is a small, openly branched shrub from south-west Western Australia, grown for its scented white to pale pink spring flowers. Sources note it has not been successfully propagated or established in horticulture, so it is rarely grown.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established, as it grows in dry heath and sandy soils.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or gravelly soil.
Temperature
Mediterranean-type climate; tolerates warm dry summers and cool winters, frost tolerance not documented.
How easy
Hard
Native range
SC. & S. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Verticordia inclusa is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a small shrub with small, thick leaves and groups of scented, mostly white to pale pink flowers with a red centre on the ends of the branches in spring.

How to grow it

To date this verticordia has been not been successfully propagated or established in horticulture.

Where it grows

This verticordia usually grows in sand, often with or over gravel, loam or clay, frequently with other species of verticordia, in heath and shrubland. It occurs in the area between Esperance and the Fitzgerald River National Park and as far north as Moorine Rock and Coolgardie in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Mallee 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 inclusa 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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