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Zieria minutiflora

Zieria minutiflora
Photo: Mark Marathon, CC BY-SA 4.0

Twiggy zieria is a small, erect, twiggy shrub from eastern Australia that grows as an understorey plant in eucalypt woodland. It is a native species of the citrus family, grown mainly by enthusiasts of Australian native plants.

Family
Rutaceae (Citrus family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Water moderately while establishing, then allow the top of the soil to dry between waterings; it tolerates dry periods once established.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or loamy soil; tolerates poor, rocky soils.
Temperature
10–30 °C; protect from frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
E. Australia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Zieria minutiflora, commonly known as twiggy zieria, is a plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a small, erect, twiggy shrub with leaves composed of three leaflets, and clusters of small white flowers with four petals and four stamens. It usually grows as an understorey shrub in eucalypt woodland.

Where it grows

Twiggy zieria mainly occurs north from Coffs Harbour in New South Wales and as far north in Queensland as Danbulla National Park and State Forest on the Atherton Tableland. It usually grows in eucalypt forest and woodland but also occurs in rocky coastal areas.

Other Zieria plants

Zieria abscondita · Zieria actites · Zieria adenodonta · Zieria adenophora · Zieria alata · Stinkwood · Zieria aspalathoides · Zieria baeuerlenii · Zieria bifida · Zieria boolbunda · Zieria buxijugum · Zieria caducibracteata

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Zieria minutiflora 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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