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Leptosema daviesioides
Upside Down Pea Bush is a low, spiny, widely branched shrub from the dry heath of south-west Western Australia, grown for its striking pink and red flowers. It needs full sun, sharp drainage and very little water.
Leptosema daviesioides is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with many rigid, spiny branches, leaves reduced to triangular scales, deep pink flowers, and beaked, very broadly oval pods.
Leptosema daviesioides grows in a variety of soil types and habitats, but usually sand, often in heath with Allocasuarina campestris and Melaleuca, between the Murchison River, Lake Grace and west to Balladonia and Cundeelee.
Leptosema aculeatum · Leptosema anomalum · Leptosema aphyllum · Leptosema bossiaeoides · Leptosema cervicorne · Upside Down Plant · Leptosema chapmanii · Leptosema macrocarpum · Leptosema oxylobioides · Leptosema tomentosum · Leptosema uniflorum · Leptosema villosum
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Leptosema daviesioides 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.
