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Rapier featherflower
Verticordia mitchelliana
About
Verticordia mitchelliana, commonly known as rapier featherflower, is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with bright red, rapier-like flowers in spring and early summer, which readily distinguish it from other species. It is commonly grown in private gardens and some forms have larger flowers than those usually found in the wild.
- Family
- Myrtaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Verticordia mitchelliana
- Slug
- verticordia-mitchelliana
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Myrtaceae
- Genus
- Verticordia
- Species
- mitchelliana
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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