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Pom poms
Ptilotus manglesii
About
Ptilotus manglesii, commonly known as pom poms, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a perennial herb with low-lying, prostrate or rarely erect stems, spatula-shaped to lance-shaped leaves at the base of the plant and lance-shaped to egg-shaped stem leaves, and oval to cylindrical spikes of pink or magenta flowers. The Noongar name for the plant is mulla mulla.
- Family
- Amaranthaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Ptilotus manglesii
- Slug
- ptilotus-manglesii
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Amaranthaceae
- Genus
- Ptilotus
- Species
- manglesii
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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