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Cottony bluebush
Maireana carnosa
About
Maireana carnosa, commonly known as cottony bluebush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to continental Australia. It is an erect to spreading or prostrate perennial herb or subshrub with a woody base, fleshy narrowly to broadly oblong leaves, bisexual flowers arranged singly, and a crust-like, hemispherical fruiting perianth with a thin, horizontal wing.
- Family
- Amaranthaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Maireana carnosa
- Slug
- maireana-carnosa
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Amaranthaceae
- Genus
- Maireana
- Species
- carnosa
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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