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Daviesia elliptica

Daviesia elliptica
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Daviesia elliptica, known as wild hops, is a native Australian shrub of the pea family that grows as an open, multi-stemmed plant to about 1 to 1.5 m with yellow and maroon flowers. It grows in forest understorey on sandy granite-derived soils, so it needs good drainage and a bright, partly shaded spot.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Water moderately while establishing, then allow the soil to dry between waterings; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Sandy, free-draining, acidic to neutral soil; a native or sandy mix.
Temperature
10–30 °C; protect from frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. Queensland to NE. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Daviesia elliptica, commonly known as wild hops, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an open, usually multi-stemmed shrub with scattered, narrowly elliptic to egg-shaped phyllodes, and yellow and red to maroon flowers.

Where it grows

Wild hops grows in the understorey of forest on sandy soils derived from granite from Dalveen in south-eastern Queensland to Guyra on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales.

Other Daviesia plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Daviesia elliptica 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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