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Dark Bush Pea

Pultenaea viscidula

Dark Bush Pea
Photo: Rogier de Kok, CC BY 3.0 au

Dark bush-pea (Pultenaea viscidula) is a small erect shrub native to South Australia, growing in woodland and heathland. It is grown mainly in native and dry-climate gardens and needs good drainage and full sun.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly once established; let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty soil; tolerates poor, acidic soils.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates mild frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
South Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Pultenaea viscidula, commonly known as dark bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to South Australia. It is an erect shrub with branches that are sticky when young, linear to cylindrical, channelled leaves with stipules at the base, and yellow to orange and yellow-red to green flowers.

Where it grows

Dark bush-pea grows in woodland and heathland and is common in western and northern parts of Kangaroo Island and in a few places on the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia.

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 viscidula 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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