This small shrub has upright-spreading slender woody stems and forms a rounded bushy to prostrate habit. It has small thick mid green oblong leaves and the profuse white to pink cup-shaped flowers appear from autumn to early spring.

Hardiness zones 9 to 11

Thryptomene baeckeaceais naturally found in Western Australia from Eremaean Province to the South-west Province growing in sand dunes on the coast.

It prefers a very well drained moderately fertile yellow or red sandy soil that has a limestone base and grows in an open to exposed sunny position and is salt spray and drought tolerant but is frost tender.

This Thryptomene is grown for its spreading habit and its flowers. It is planted in parks and gardens along front borders or is mass planted as a ground cover. It is also used in rockeries or used for sand dune stabilisation. It is suitable for coastal and inland regions and establishes in 2-3 years. This shrub can also be grown in patio pots and planter boxes or used in roof gardens. ID 3324

Thryptomene(thrip-TOH-meen) baeckeacea(by-KEE-see-a)

Myrtaceae(mir-TAY-see-ee)
Myrtle, Eucalyptus, Clove and Guava Family