Conospermum triplinervium
| Conospermum triplinervium | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Genus: | Conospermum |
| Species: | C. triplinervium
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| Binomial name | |
| Conospermum triplinervium | |
Conospermum triplinervium, commonly known as the tree smokebush, is a tree or shrub endemic to Western Australia.[1]
The tree or shrub typically grows to a height of 0.5 to 4.5 metres (1.6 to 14.8 ft). It blooms between August and January producing cream-white flowers.
It is found on sand plains and in winter wet depressions along the coast in the Mid West, Wheatbelt, Peel and Great Southern regions of Western Australia where it grows in sandy soils over laterite.[1]
he 1889 book 'The Useful Native Plants of Australia’ records that common names included "Native Orange" and "Orange Thorn" and that "Baron Mueller suggests that these plants be tried on the worst desert country, as all kinds of pasture animals browse with avidity on the long, tender, and downy flower-stalks and spikes, without touching the foliage, thus not destroying the plant by close cropping."[2]
References
- ^ a b "Conospermum triplinervium". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
- ^ J. H. Maiden (1889). The useful native plants of Australia : Including Tasmania. Turner and Henderson, Sydney.