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Dillwynia trichopoda

Dillwynia trichopoda is a small, woody shrub from eastern Australia, growing up to about one metre, with red, orange or yellow pea-type flowers. It is rarely cultivated but grows well in dry, sunny, well-drained conditions.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly once established; allow soil to dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining, dry or sandy to gritty soil; tolerates poor, skeletal soils.
Temperature
Tolerates mild to warm conditions, generally hardy in temperate and subtropical climates; protect from prolonged frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
E. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Dillwynia trichopoda is a shrub in the plant family Fabaceae that is native to New South Wales, Australia.

How to grow it

Despite not being a commonly cultivated plant, Dillwynia trichopoda can be grown in gardens. It can be grown in dry soils in sunny or semi-sunny conditions, and it can tolerate some heavy pruning.

Where it grows

Dillwynia trichopoda is native to the eastern half of New South Wales where it grows in dry forests and bushlands in skeletal soils. It almost never grows on coastal headlands. This shrub has also been sighted in some parts of Queensland.

Other Dillwynia plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dillwynia trichopoda 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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