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Chorizema ilicifolium
Holly flame pea is a slender, spreading Western Australian shrub with prickly, holly-like leaves and orange-red pea flowers in winter and spring. It is grown mainly as a garden or coastal shrub and does best in free-draining, sunny sites.
Chorizema ilicifolium, commonly known as holly flame pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the coast of southern Western Australia. It is a slender, erect to spreading shrub with prickly, egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves and yellowish-orange and red pea flowers.
Chorizema ilicifolium grows on sand dunes and limestone hills along the south coast of Western Australia between Busselton and Esperance in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Warren bioregions.
Australian Flame Pea · Chorizema cytisoides · Chorizema nervosum
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chorizema ilicifolium 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.
