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Fabaceae
Purple Coral Pea
Hardenbergia violacea
Determination and unity.
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Hardenbergia
- Native to
- Australia
- Bloom season
- Winter, Spring
- Type
- vine
- Height
- 6-16 ft
- Sunlight
- full sun to partial shade
- Soil
- well-drained, sandy to loamy
- Water
- low to moderate
- Hardiness
- 9-11
- Lifespan
- perennial
Did you know
- It is also called 'happy wanderer' for its cheerful habit of scrambling enthusiastically over fences and trellises.
- Aboriginal Australians traditionally ate the sweet nectar from the flowers and used the leaves to make a tea.
- The plant was named after Franziska von Hardenberg, a 19th-century Austrian patron of botany.
- Purple coral pea is one of the first plants to bloom in late winter, providing critical early nectar for bees.
- Despite being a legume, it does not fix nitrogen as efficiently as most other plants in the pea family.
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