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Correa pulchella 'Pink Flamingo' (Australian Fuchsia) - A compact evergreen shrub to 3 feet tall and as wide with smooth and shiny deep-green leaves densely cloaking the branches. Deep salmon-pink flowers are very striking during winter and spring with scattered flowering year-round.
Plant in full sun to part shade, with average to good drainage, Grows well in dry shade under oaks. Deer resistant. Drought tolerant and cold hardy to 20-25 F.
Correa pulchella comes from calcareous soils in South Australia. The name Correa honors José Francisco Correia de Serra, a Portuguese botanist and the specific epithet is Latin for "beautiful". The cultivar Correa pulchella 'Pink Flamingo' was 2001 University of California Santa Cruz Koala Blooms Australian Plant Introduction. It is more upright growing and has darker flowers than the plant we list as Correa pulchella and is a little taller with deeper salmon pink colored flowers than Correa pulchella 'Pink Eyre'. For a comparison of the Correa pulchella cultivars pictured together see Correa pulchella varieties. We have grown this excellent plant continuously since 2001.
The information displayed on this page about Correa pulchella 'Pink Flamingo' is based on the research we conducted about it in our nursery horticultural library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include some of our own observations made about this plant as it grows in the nursery gardens and other gardens that we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments that we have received from others and welcome hearing from anyone with additional information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information that will aid others to better grow it.
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