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Eutaxia cuneata

Eutaxia cuneata
Photo: M. Crisp, CC BY-SA 3.0

Eutaxia cuneata is a slender, upright shrub from south-west Western Australia, grown for its orange-yellow, red-tinged pea flowers. It is a native of heath and woodland, so it needs open sun and sharp drainage to do well.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then reduce to occasional deep watering; avoid waterlogged roots.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty soil, with low fertility.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates mild frost briefly, protect below about -5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
S. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Eutaxia cuneata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a slender, upright shrub with red and orange pea-like flowers.

Where it grows

This pea grows in heath, woodland in a variety of soils near the south coast of Western Australia from Cheyne Beach to Ravensthorpe.

Other Eutaxia plants

Eutaxia acanthoclada · Eutaxia actinophylla · Eutaxia andocada · Large Leaf Eutaxia · Eutaxia empetrifolia · Eutaxia epacridoides · Eutaxia exilis · Eutaxia hirsuta · Eutaxia inuncta · Eutaxia lasiocalyx · Eutaxia lasiophylla · Eutaxia lutea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eutaxia cuneata 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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