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Daviesia megacalyx

Daviesia megacalyx
Photo: Michael Crisp, CC BY 3.0 au

Daviesia megacalyx is a small erect shrub from Western Australia, known for apricot and deep pink pea flowers in August and September. It is a rare native of mallee-heath near Ravensthorpe and is grown mainly by specialist native plant collectors.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then sparingly; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty soil; tolerates poor soils.
Temperature
10–30 °C; protect from hard frost
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Western Australia (Ravensthorpe Range)
Climate
subtropical

About

Daviesia megacalyx is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, glabrous shrub with scattered, leathery, elliptic phyllodes and apricot-coloured and deep pink flowers.

Where it grows

This daviesia grows in mallee-heath and dense shrubland near Ravensthorpe in the Esperance Plains biogeographic region of south-western Western Australia.

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 megacalyx 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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