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Chorizema nervosum is a small shrub from the coast of southern Western Australia, grown for its yellowish-orange and red pea flowers from July to September. It needs full sun, good drainage and dry conditions, similar to other Australian native pea shrubs.
Chorizema nervosum is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the coast of southern Western Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub with sharply-pointed, wavy, round to heart-shaped leaves, and yellowish-orange and red pea flowers.
This species of pea grows in rocky gullies, breakaways and rocky gullies in near-coastal areas from near Jerramungup to Cape Arid National Park in the Esperance Plains and Mallee bioregions of southern Western Australia.
Australian Flame Pea · Chorizema cytisoides · Holly Flame Pea
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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.
