This variable shrub has slender woody branches that form a compact to a straggly open habit. It has dark green divided leaves that may turn reddish during winter and the small pink to white cup-shaped flowers appear from spring to autumn.
  
Hardiness zones 8 to 10

Bauera rubioides is naturally found in Australia growing along the east coast, appearing in damp gullies. It prefers a well drained moist sandy soil in a protected semi shaded to sunny position and is frost tolerant but drought sensitive.
 
Dog Rose is hardy plant that is grown for its bushy habit and flowers. It is planted along small garden borders or used in rockeries. It can also be trimmed to form an informal hedge and is used on embankments and along water courses. It establishes in 2 to 3 years and is suitable for coastal or inland regions. In bushland settings it is used as an understory amongst trees. ID 552

Bauera (BOW-a-ra) rubioides (roo-bee-OI-deez)

‘Bauera’: after 18th century botanical artists Franz & Ferdinand Bauer; ‘rubioides’: like Rubia (a similar mallow).

Cunoniaceae (kew-NON-ee-AY-see-ee)