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Sesbania chippendalei

Sesbania chippendalei
Photo: Naturalis Biodiversity Center, CC0

Sesbania chippendalei, the yellow pea-bush, is a short-lived annual legume from tropical northern Australia, growing up to about 1.5 m with yellow pea-like flowers and pods. It needs warm, sunny conditions and a free-draining soil, and it is best grown from seed each season.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub, Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then allow the top of the soil to dry between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or loam soil; tolerates poor soils.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Easy
Native range
Northern Territory to Queensland
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Sesbania chippendalei, commonly known as the yellow pea-bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. The species is native to Australia, and was described in 1965.

Sesbania chippendalei is an annual plant, with yellow flowers and light brown seeds.

Where it grows

Sesbania chippendalei is native to the seasonally dry tropical biome of Australia. It is present in the Northern Territory and Queensland.

Other Sesbania plants

Dunchi fiber · Sesbania · Poisonbean · Dragon Flowertree · Vegetable hummingbird · Bigpod sesbania · Sesbania madagascariensis · Sesbania mossambicensis · Sesbania pachycarpa · Rattlebox · Sesbania rostrata · Papagayo

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sesbania chippendalei 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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