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Chorizema cordatum
Also called Heart Leaf Flame Pea
Australian flame pea is a woody shrub or scrambler from south-western Western Australia, grown for its heart-shaped leaves and bright yellow, orange and red pea flowers. It needs a warm, drier-summer climate and protection from frost.
Chorizema cordatum, commonly known as heart-leaf flame pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. Noongar people know the plant as kaly. It is a woody, erect, scrambling or climbing shrub with heart-shaped leaves, the flowers usually brightly coloured in yellow, orange and red.
This species can be grown as a garden plant, and does well in other parts of the country, (such as Sydney on the other side of the Australian continent). However, a summer with lower humidity is better suited for this plant. As it does not tolerate freezing, in cooler areas it requires the protection of glass. Propagation from seed is easily achieved, and cuttings strike well.
Heart-leaf flame pea grows in forest, on rocky outcrops, along watercourses and on winter-wet flats in the Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chorizema cordatum 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.
