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York Road Poison

Gastrolobium calycinum

Also called York Road Poisonbush

York Road Poison
Photo: jeans_Photos, CC BY 2.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Gastrolobium calycinum commonly known as York Road poison, is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It has variable leaves and yellow pea flowers with a pink or red centre and is endemic to Western Australia.

Where it grows

York Road poison grows in a variety of situations including clay, loam or sandy soils on hills or flats in Western Australia.

Other Gastrolobium plants

Gastrolobium acrocaroli · Gastrolobium alternifolium · Heart Leaf Poisonbush · Gastrolobium brevipes · 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 calycinum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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