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Gastrolobium leakeanum, the mountain pea, is an erect or sprawling Western Australian shrub to about 2 m with scarlet to orange or yellow pea flowers in spring. It grows on rocky mountain slopes and is rarely cultivated, mainly because of poisonous foliage.
Gastrolobium leakeanum, commonly known as the mountain pea, is a plant in the pea family Fabaceae that is endemic to a small area in the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect or sprawling shrub to about 2 m (6 ft 7 in) high, with red to orange or yellow flowers in spring.
As with other members of its genus, G. leakeanum has been avoided in cultivation, probably because of the poisonous components in its foliage.
Mountain pea grows on mountaintops, ridges and steep slopes in sandy clay or loam over quartzite or in stony soils. It is found in the Esperance Plains and Mallee biogeographic regions of Western Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gastrolobium leakeanum 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.
