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Dillwynia brunioides

Dillwynia brunioides
Photo: Nicholas de Jong, CC BY 3.0 au

Dillwynia brunioides, sandstone parrot-pea, is a small erect shrub from sandstone heath and forest in eastern New South Wales. It is a native Australian plant best suited to a sunny, well-drained, sandy or gritty site.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty, acidic to neutral soil; poor soils suit it well.
Temperature
10–30 °C; frost tolerant to about -5 °C, protect young plants below that.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Dillwynia brunioides, commonly known as sandstone parrot-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with silky-hairy stems, linear, grooved leaves and yellow flowers with red markings.

Where it grows

This dillwynia grows in forest and heath on sandstone on the coast and ranges between the Blue Mountains, the Budawangs and Jervis Bay in eastern New South Wales.

Other Dillwynia plants

Dillwynia acerosa · Dillwynia acicularis · Grey Parrot Pea · Dillwynia crispii · Dillwynia dillwynioides · Dillwynia divaricata · Dillwynia elegans · Eggs And Bacon · Smooth Parrot Pea · Dillwynia glaucula · Downy Parrot Pea · Prickly Parrot Pea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dillwynia brunioides 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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