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Verticordia serotina

Verticordia serotina is a small shrub from the Cape Range of north-west Western Australia, known for scented pink flowers in spring. It is rarely cultivated, having been grown successfully only at Kings Park Botanic Garden, so it is best treated as a specialist plant needing a sandy, free-draining site.

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water lightly and let the soil dry between waterings; it is adapted to dry sandy heath.
Soil
Deep, well-drained sandy soil with low fertility.
Temperature
Suited to a warm, subtropical to Mediterranean-type climate; protect from frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
W. Western Australia (Cape Range)
Climate
subtropical

About

Verticordia serotina is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the north-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with egg-shaped leaves and bright pink flowers with long, curved styles in spring.

How to grow it

Verticordia serotina has only been successfully cultivated in Kings Park Botanic Garden. It has been propagated from cuttings and by grafting onto Chamelaucium uncinatum rootstock.

Where it grows

This verticordia usually grows in deep sand in heath and shrubland. It occurs in the Cape Range National Park and nearby stations in the Carnarvon biogeographic region.

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 serotina 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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