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Crinkle Leaf Poison

Gastrolobium villosum

Also called Crinkle Leaf Poisonbush, Crinkle Leaved Poison

Crinkle Leaf Poison
Photo: Kevin Thiele from Perth, Australia, CC BY 2.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Safety
Toxic
Native range
WSW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Gastrolobium villosum (common name crinkle-leaf poison or crinkle-leaved poison) is a low spreading shrub in the pea family (Fabaceae), endemic to Western Australia. Like most Gastrolobiums it is poisonous to stock.

It was first described by George Bentham in 1839. There are no synonyms.

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 villosum 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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