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Pultenaea retusa
Also called Notched Bush Pea
Blunt bush pea (Pultenaea retusa) is a small erect Australian shrub in the pea family, grown for its yellow-to-orange and red-to-purple pea flowers. It does best in moist soil and a sunny to lightly shaded spot.
Pultenaea retusa, commonly known as notched bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern continental Australia. It is an erect shrub with wedge-shaped or egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow to orange and red to purple flowers.
Notched bush-pea grows in forest and heathland on swampy sites on the coast and nearby tablelands of Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria as far west as Melbourne.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pultenaea retusa 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.
