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Goodeniaceae
Lechenaultia
Lechenaultia biloba
Rare beauty and endurance.
- Family
- Goodeniaceae
- Genus
- Lechenaultia
- Native to
- Western Australia
- Bloom season
- Spring, Summer
- Type
- shrub
- Height
- 0.5-2 ft
- Sunlight
- full sun
- Soil
- sandy, well-drained, low fertility
- Water
- low
- Hardiness
- 9-11
- Lifespan
- perennial
Did you know
- Lechenaultia biloba produces some of the most vivid blue flowers found in the Australian flora.
- It is endemic to the Southwest Australian Floristic Region, one of the world's 36 biodiversity hotspots.
- The genus is named after Jean-Baptiste Louis Claude Théodore Leschenault de la Tour, a French botanist.
- Lechenaultia flowers have a unique 'indusium' — a pollen-collecting cup that presents pollen to pollinators.
- Like many Western Australian plants, it is highly sensitive to Phytophthora root rot and excess phosphorus.
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