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Chorizema retrorsum is a trailing to climbing shrub from southwest Western Australia, growing up to about 3 m, with orange-red, yellow and pink pea flowers from August to December. It is grown mainly as a garden or bushland shrub in mild, frost-free climates.
Chorizema retrorsum is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a trailing or erect to climbing shrub that typically grows to a height of 3 m (9.8 ft) high. It has orange-red, yellow and pink flowers from August to December.
It was first formally described in 1992 by Joan Taylor and Michael Crisp in the journal Australian Systematic Botany, from specimens collected between Walpole and Denmark.
Needle Leaved Chorizema · Chorizema carinatum · Chorizema circinale · Australian Flame Pea · Chorizema cytisoides · Yellow Eyed Flame Pea · Chorizema diversifolium · Chorizema genistoides · Orange Flame Pea · Chorizema humile · Holly Flame Pea · Chorizema nanum
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chorizema retrorsum 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.
