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Verticordia mitodes

Verticordia mitodes
Photo: Ursina Gringer, CC BY 4.0
Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Water
Drought tolerant
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Verticordia mitodes 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 a single, highly-branched main stem, small leaves and small spikes of magenta-coloured flowers in late spring.

How to grow it

In cultivation, V. mitodes is slow growing, producing a small bushy plant which flowers from November to March. Propagation from seed has proven easier than from cuttings and established plants are frost and drought tolerant.

Where it grows

This verticordia grows in sandy soil, sometimes with gravel and loam, in heath and shrubland, often with other species of verticordia. It occurs between Mukinbudin, Bungalbin, Narembeen and Marvel Loch, Western Australia in the Avon Wheatbelt and Coolgardie 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 mitodes by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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