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Gastrolobium alternifolium

Gastrolobium alternifolium
Photo: jeans_Photos, CC BY 2.0

Gastrolobium alternifolium is a small, multi-branched Western Australian shrub in the pea family, with yellow pea-type flowers. It is grown only occasionally, mainly by enthusiasts of native Australian plants, and needs well-drained soil and full sun.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established, letting the soil dry between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty soil; poor soil suits it better than rich soil.
Temperature
Tolerates mild to warm conditions; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
WSW. Western Australia (E. of Perth)
Climate
subtropical

About

Gastrolobium alternifolium is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is a small multi-branched shrub with predominantly yellow pea flowers and is endemic to Western Australia.

Other Gastrolobium plants

Gastrolobium acrocaroli · Heart Leaf Poisonbush · Gastrolobium brevipes · York Road Poison · Bacon And Eggs · Swan River Pea · Gastrolobium coriaceum · Gastrolobium formosum · Gastrolobium glabratum · Australian Poisonbush · Gastrolobium leakeanum · Gastrolobium lehmannii

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gastrolobium alternifolium 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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