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Bacon And Eggs

Gastrolobium capitatum

Bacon And Eggs
Photo: Lindley, John; Ridgway, James, Public domain
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Water
Likes moisture
Native range
WSW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Gastrolobium capitatum, commonly known as bacon and eggs, is a species of flowering plant native to southern Western Australia. It is a shrub that grows up to one metre (3.3 ft) tall, growing on sandy to loamy soils, laterite or granite, on slopes, outcrops, swamps or plains.

It flowers from June to September and has orange-yellow flowers.

Other Gastrolobium plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gastrolobium capitatum 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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