Chamelaucium uncinatum – Plant

Description

Plant description

Chamelaucium uncinatum ‘Purple Pride’ is a medium sized shrub, growing to around 2 metres tall and wide. It is very floriferous, with masses of purple flowers that are long lasting, attractive cut flowers. A great feature plant. It needs an open, sandy soil, and can be grown in a large container in areas with heavy soil. Salt tolerant and can take light frost. Likes a sunny spot.

Cultivation

Geraldton Wax is relatively hardy and fairly easy to grow in a Mediterranean climate with well-drained sandy soil and a sunny aspect. It can be grown in areas of higher humidity, such as Sydney, but tends to be short lived. It is also good in pots. It has the tendency to ‘fall over’ and may need support. It is very drought-tolerant and has aromatic leaves.

The hardy characteristics have led to its use as a root stock species for grafting species of the closely related featherflowers of genus

Varieties

Many varieties are commercially available, named both for colour and for early/late flowering times. In the wild, Geraldton wax is most commonly white with varying tinges of mauve. The deeper purple forms (pictured below) are selected varieties propagated commercially:

• Chamelaucium “Early Purple”
• Chamelaucium “Purple Pride

Flowers

Flower colour: purple
Flowering season: spring

Plant size

Maximum height: 3 metres
Minimum height: 2 metres

Maximum width: 2 metres
Minimum width: 2 metres

Sunlight, frost & salt tolerance

This plant will tolerate full sunlight.
Light frost tolerance.
Plant is not salt tolerant.

Climate

This plant species will grow in the following climates: temperate.

Soil types & conditions

Loam: well-drained.

Clay: not suitable.

Sand: moist.

Soil pH: 5.5-6.5

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