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HANDSOME FLAT-PEA FACTS |
Map is from The Atlas of Living Australia web site, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
Common Name
Handsome Flat-pea
Description
Handsome Flat-pea is a small to medium shrub that grows to about two metres in height. Its habit is an upright shrub, or trailing plant. The leaves are ovate or heart-shaped with very short stalks and grow up to 5 cm long and 2 cm wide. The plant produces yellow pea flowers with red centres in spring. The fruit is flat pods to 4 cm long which may be smooth or hairy.
Habitat
found in woodland, heathland and open forest
Distribution
Platylobium formosum is found on the east coast of Australia from south east Queensland, eastern New South Wales, eastern Victoria and north-east Tasmania.
Growth Characteristics
Height: 1m - 2m
Classification
| Class: | Magnoliopsida | | Order: | Fabales | | Family: | Fabaceae | | Genus: | Platylobium | | Species: | formosum | | Common Name: | Handsome Flat-pea |
Relatives in same Genus
Platylobium obtusangulum
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