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Platylobium triangulare

Platylobium triangulare, the ivy flat-pea, is a low, mostly prostrate Australian shrub with sharply triangular leaves, native to sandy heaths. It is grown mainly in native and drought-tolerant gardens where it has room to sprawl.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then rely on rainfall; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or light soil; tolerates poor, acidic soils.
Temperature
Mild temperate conditions; frost-hardy in many areas.
How easy
Moderate

About

Platylobium triangulare , commonly known as ivy flat-pea, is a shrub species that is endemic to Australia. It is a member of the family Fabaceae and of the genus Platylobium. The species was formally described in 1812 by botanist Robert Brown in Hortus Kewensis. The type specimen was collected in Tasmania by Brown.

Platylobium triangulare is a more-or-less prostrate shrub with sharply triangular leaves 1.2 - 2 cm long. It is reasonably common in sandy heaths in the east and north of the state.

Other Platylobium plants

Victorian Flat-pea · Platylobium formosum · Platylobium infecundum · Platylobium montanum · Platylobium obtusangulum · Platylobium parviflorum · Platylobium reflexum · Platylobium rotundum · Platylobium

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Platylobium triangulare 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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