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Hardenbergia

Hardenbergia
Photo: Gnangarra, CC BY 2.5 au

Hardenbergia is a genus of three climbing or trailing Australian species in the pea family, with violet, white or pink pea-like flowers. Commonly grown members such as the purple coral pea (Hardenbergia violacea) are fast, twining climbers for sunny spots.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Climber
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then reduce to occasional watering once established.
Soil
Well-drained soil or mix; tolerates poor, sandy soil.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates light frost, protect from hard frost
How easy
Easy

About

Hardenbergia is a genus of three species of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae and is endemic to Australia. Plants in this genus are climbing or trailing herbs or subshrubs with pinnate leaves with one, three or five leaflets and groups of violet, white or pinkish flowers in pairs or small clusters in leaf axils. Species of Hardenbergia occur in all Australian states and in the Australian Capital Territory.

Other Hardenbergia plants

Native Wisteria · Hardenbergia perbrevidens · Coral-pea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hardenbergia 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.

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