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Zieria vagans

Zieria vagans, known as Gurgeena stink bush, is an open, straggly Australian shrub in the citrus family, found only on the Gurgeena Plateau near Binjour in south-eastern Queensland. It is grown rarely, and mainly as a plant for conservation or native collections.

Family
Rutaceae (Citrus family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Part shade, Full sun
Water
Water moderately while establishing, then allow the soil to dry between waterings; it tolerates dry conditions once established.
Soil
Well-drained soil, sandy or loamy, with good drainage.
Temperature
Suited to warm, seasonally dry subtropical conditions; protect from frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
ESE. Queensland
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Zieria vagans, commonly known as Gurgeena stink bush, is a plant in the citrus family Rutaceae and endemic to a small area near Binjour in south-eastern Queensland. It is an open, straggly shrub with densely hairy branches, three-part leaves and groups of up to fifteen flowers with four creamy-white petals and four stamens.

Where it grows

Gurgeena stink bush is only known from the Gurgeena Plateau near Binjour in the Brigalow Belt bioregions where it grows in or near vine thicket dominated by Backhousia kingii.

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 vagans 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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