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Caragana ambigua

Caragana ambigua is a shrub in the pea family native to Pakistan, traditionally used there for diabetes. It is a cold-hardy, drought-tolerant plant suited to dry, open sites rather than a common garden or houseplant.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water young plants until established, then rely mostly on rainfall; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gravelly soil; tolerates poor, alkaline soils.
Temperature
Hardy to around -20 °C in the cold, suited to temperate and semi-arid climates.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Pakistan
Climate
temperate

About

Caragana ambigua is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is traditionally used in Southwest Pakistan for the treatment of diabetes.

Other Caragana plants

Caragana acanthophylla · Siberian peashrub · Caragana bicolor · Russian peashrub · Russian Salt Tree · Shag Spine Peashrub · Peashrub · Pygmy Caragana · Chinese Peashrub · Peashrub

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Caragana ambigua 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.

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