Detail
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Chorizema cordatum
Heart-leaf Flame Pea
Notes

Uses: As an understorey ornamental for mixed native landscapes, parks and reserves higher rainfall areas of the Adelaide Hills and footslopes or the banks of watercourses. Prefers some root protection and responds to pruning.
Attracts butterflies and insects.

  • Height 1-2m
  • Spread 0.5-1m
  • Family Leguminaceae
  • Botanical Name Chorizema cordatum
  • Common Name Heart-leaf Flame Pea
  • Origin WA
  • Habit Dense, Semi-climber
  • Landscape Footslopes, Hills, Watercourse
  • Soil Texture Loam, Sand
  • pH Acidic, Neutral
  • Tolerates Drought, Moderate frost
  • Supplementary Watering Moderate
  • Flower Colour Yellow, Red
  • Flowering Time Spring, Summer
  • Flower Type Pea
  • Purpose Habitat, Ornamental
  • Evergreen/Deciduous Evergreen
  • Form Medium Shrub (Usually between 1.2m & 3.6m)