Scaevola taccada
Sea Lettuce
Scaevola is an erect, spreading, evergreen shrub or small tree with somewhat succulent, soft-wooded, pithy stems. It usually grows up to 4 metres tall, it grows very close to the sea exposed to the salt spray, usually on sandy or pebbly soils. It prefers well drained sandy soils and it is a very salt tolerant scrub.
Contributed by @richard.spicer.7906
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Full sun to partial shade
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Occasional watering
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Not Frost hardy
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Light to medium
Common name
Sea Lettuce
Latin name
Scaevola taccada
type
evergreen perennial
family
Goodeniaceae
ph
6.0 - 7.5 Acid - Neutral
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Light
Full sun to partial shade
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Frost
Not Frost hardy
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Soil
Light to medium
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Water
Occasional watering
Plant & bloom calendar
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Best time to plant
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When the plant will bloom
full grown dimensions
3.00 M
4.00 M
Scaevola taccada
Scaevola is an erect, spreading, evergreen shrub or small tree with somewhat succulent, soft-wooded, pithy stems. It usually grows up to 4 metres tall, it grows very close to the sea exposed to the salt spray, usually on sandy or pebbly soils. It prefers well drained sandy soils and it is a very salt tolerant scrub.
Propagating by cuttings
From Early Spring TO Mid Summer
Take softwood cuttings from new growth early in the day in Spring or early Summer. Cut, neatly, a 4" approx. piece of a non-flowering shoot, pinch out the tip, and cut off the bottom leaves. Dip the bottom of the cutting in hormone rooting powder, and carefully place in a pot of cutting compost with the leaves just above the level of the compost. Water, label, cover with a polythene bag, and place in a warm, bright place, out of direct sunlight. Take the polythene bag off periodically for a while for ventilation (at least twice a week)
Flowering
From Late Spring TO Late Summer
Scaevola taccada bloom from late Spring through to the end of Summer
Planting
From Early Spring TO Mid Spring
Plant in a free-draining fertile soil - or in a container filled with good-quality compost - in a sheltered site that will get at least 8 hours of sunlight. Plant after the danger of frost has passed, and when the temperature is at least 60 deg.F.
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