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Fabaceae
Bush Pea
Pultenaea villosa
Resilience and resourcefulness.
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Pultenaea
- Native to
- Australia
- Bloom season
- Spring
- Type
- evergreen shrub
- Height
- 2-5 ft
- Sunlight
- full sun to part shade
- Soil
- Sandy, well-drained, slightly acidic soil
- Water
- low
- Hardiness
- 9-11
- Lifespan
- perennial
Did you know
- Bush pea flowers have the distinctive pea-flower shape with a large upper petal called a standard and two lower wing petals.
- There are over 100 species of Pultenaea, all native to Australia, making it one of the continent's largest pea genera.
- Like other legumes, bush peas fix nitrogen in the soil through a symbiotic relationship with root bacteria.
- Many bush pea species require fire or smoke treatment for their seeds to germinate, an adaptation to Australia's fire ecology.
- The genus was named after Richard Pulteney, an 18th-century English botanist who wrote a history of botany in England.
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