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Gibraltar Range Bush Pea

Pultenaea tarik

Gibraltar Range Bush Pea
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Pultenaea tarik is a small, erect shrub from a single national park in northern New South Wales, grown mainly by specialist native plant collectors. It is best treated as a cool-temperate to subtropical native shrub that needs free-draining soil and good light.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then let the top of the soil dry slightly between waterings; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, acidic to neutral sandy or gritty soil; a native or mixed-native potting mix works well.
Temperature
10–28 °C; protect from frost and prolonged heat.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Pultenaea tarik is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the Gibraltar Range National Park in New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with hairy, arching branchlets, elliptic to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and yellow to orange and red to purple, pea-like flowers.

Where it grows

This pultenaea grows in forest on granite in the Gibraltar Range National Park in northern New South Wales.

Other Pultenaea plants

Bush Pea · Bristly Bush Pea · Pultenaea adunca · Grafton Bush Pea · Tall Bush Pea · Pultenaea arida · Bearded Bush Pea · Pultenaea aspalathoides · Budawang Bush Pea · Pultenaea barbata · Bentham's Bush Pea · Blakely's Bush Pea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pultenaea tarik 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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