Growing up to 5m tall and 6m wide, this plant is often used as a landscape screening or background tree. It features pink hibiscus shaped flowers on glossy green foliage, becoming denser with age. The seed capsules have fine sharp hairs irritating to skin and are not suitable for public spaces.
- Type
- Native
- Maintenance
- Low
- Water use
- Minimal
- Lifecycle
- Perennial
- Container
- Zero
- Size
- Medium Trees & shrubs 3 - 7 metres
- Root size
- 100 metres
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Zones
- Moist tropical, Semi-arid with summer rain, Moist temperate with hot summers, Semi-arid with winter rain, Winter rains with dry summers
- Soils
- Sandy, Loam, Clay
- Tolerances
- Wind, Salt
- Shade levels
- Full sun
- Flowering seasons
- Summer
- Colours
- Green, Pink