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Cupped Bush Pea

Pultenaea vrolandii

Cupped Bush Pea
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Cupped bush-pea is a small Australian native shrub in the pea family, growing 0.5 to 2 m tall with yellow-to-orange and red-brown flowers. It is a woodland and forest plant from south-eastern Australia, best grown in sun to part shade with good drainage.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then rely mostly on rainfall; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gravelly, acidic to neutral soil.
Temperature
Cool to temperate conditions; tolerates cold to about -5 °C; protect from prolonged heat above 35 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. New South Wales to Victoria
Climate
subtropical

About

Pultenaea vrolandii, commonly known as cupped bush-pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is an erect shrub with hairy, arching branchlets, elliptic to egg-shaped leaves, and yellow to orange and red to brown flowers.

Where it grows

Cupped push-pea grows in woodland and forest south from near Braidwood and Holbrook in New South Wales to scattered areas of eastern Victoria, including the Strathbogie Ranges and near Licola.

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 vrolandii 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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