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Tall Shaggy Pea

Oxylobium arborescens

Tall Shaggy Pea
Photo: M. Fagg, CC BY 4.0

Oxylobium arborescens is a species of shrub to small tree in the pea family, native to south-eastern Australia, with yellow pea flowers in spring and summer. It is an uncommon plant of gullies and sheltered forest, so it is mainly grown as a native garden shrub rather than as a common horticultural plant.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then once established, water sparingly in dry periods; it tolerates moderate moisture but not waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, slightly acidic to neutral soil, ideally leaf-rich or sandy loam.
Temperature
Suited to temperate conditions; tolerates cold to around -5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Queensland to Tasmania
Climate
subtropical

About

Oxylobium arborescens, commonly known as the tall shaggy-pea, is a species of flowering shrub to small tree in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It has elliptic dark green leaves and yellow pea flowers.

Where it grows

Tall shaggy-pea is an uncommon shrub growing in gullies and sheltered forests mostly on ranges.

Other Oxylobium plants

Mountain Mirbelia · Oxylobium cordifolium · Common Shaggy Pea · Oxylobium pulteneae · Tree Shaggy Pea · Shaggy Pea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Oxylobium arborescens 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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