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Gastrolobium lehmannii

Gastrolobium lehmannii, the Cranbrook pea, is a vulnerable, erect, domed shrub from south-west Western Australia, growing to about 1.5 m with orange, yellow and red pea flowers in spring. It is rarely cultivated and is best treated as a conservation species, with the key to growing it being sharp drainage and minimal disturbance.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established, allowing the soil to dry out between waterings; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or gravelly soil; acidic to neutral, low in phosphorus.
Temperature
Mild Mediterranean-type climate; tolerates roughly 5-30 °C; protect from prolonged frost.
How easy
Hard
Native range
SW. Western Australia (W. Stirling Range)
Climate
subtropical

About

Gastrolobium lehmannii, the Cranbrook pea, is a vulnerable shrub in the family Fabaceae which is endemic to an area of Western Australia.

Where it grows

It was first collected by James Drummond (botanist) in 1841, and later by Charles Gardner in 1919 between Cranbrook and the Stirling Ranges and from the Blackwood River area.

Other Gastrolobium plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gastrolobium lehmannii 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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