Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Bossiaea tasmanica

Bossiaea tasmanica
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0

Bossiaea tasmanica is a low, spreading, spiny-branched shrub native to Tasmania, found in forest and woodland. It is a wild species rarely grown in gardens, so care notes are general guidance for a hardy native pea-family shrub.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water young plants until established, then rely mostly on rainfall; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, gritty or sandy soil; tolerates poor, acidic soils.
Temperature
Cool temperate conditions; hardy to frost, protect from prolonged heat and humidity.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Tasmania
Climate
temperate

About

Bossiaea tasmanica is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Tasmania. It is a prostrate or low-lying shrub with spiny branches, elliptic to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow and red to pink flowers.

Where it grows

Bossiaea tasmanica grows in forest and woodland in north-eastern Tasmania near Mathinna and in south-eastern Tasmania near Oatlands.

Other Bossiaea plants

Alpine Bossiaea · Water Bush · Bossiaea arcuata · Bossiaea arenicola · Bossiaea arenitensis · Bossiaea armitii · Bossiaea atrata · Bossiaea aurantiaca · Bossiaea barbarae · Bossiaea barrettiorum · Bossiaea bombayensis · Holly Leaved Pea Flower

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bossiaea tasmanica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…