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Golden Pea Tree

Daviesia arborea

Golden Pea Tree
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Golden pea is a shrub or small tree from eastern Australia with weeping branches and yellow, red-marked spring flowers. It grows best in part shade, moist but well-drained soil.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist but never waterlogged, especially in the growing season.
Soil
Well-drained, moist, humus-rich soil.
Temperature
Subtropical climate; protect from frost, roughly 10–30 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. Queensland to NE. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Daviesia arborea, commonly known as golden pea or bitterleaf pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub or small tree with weeping branches, linear phyllodes and yellow flowers with red markings.

How to grow it

This large shrub is an attractive plant with it drooping branches and clusters of sweet-smelling flowers in spring. It can be grown from scarified seed and grows best in semi-shaded, moist situation in well-drained soil.

Where it grows

Golden pea mostly grows in moist forest on coastal hills and mountains slopes from the Bunya Mountains in south-east Queensland to near Comboyne in New South Wales.

Other Daviesia plants

Daviesia abnormis · Sandplain Bitter Pea · Daviesia alata · Daviesia alternifolia · Daviesia anceps · Daviesia angulata · Dryland Bitter Pea · Daviesia apiculata · Sandhill Bitter Pea · Daviesia argillacea · Daviesia arthropoda · Daviesia articulata

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Daviesia arborea 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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