Family: Fabaceae-Faboideae
Plant: A shrub up to 3m high with pendulous, striate, round, seemingly leafless stems
Flowers: Masses of yellow pea flowers, often with red markings, borne near ends of branches.
Flowering: September-November
Fruit: Beaked, black, ovate pod 4-5mm long.
Leaves: Virtually leafless with the leaves reduced to small protrusions along the stems.
Habitat: Common in swampy ground near coast and alongside watercourses in heathland.
Features: Numerous whip-like stems rising from stout orange-brown branches. Yellow pea flowers.
Name:
Viminaria From Latin vimen = switch or tree (referring to its leafless stems).
juncea From Latin juncus = bulrush.
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Type |
Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Irregular, Pea, Single |
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Colour(s) |
Yellow, Red |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
4, 5 |
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Flowering Month |
9, 10, 11 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Pod |
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Colour |
Black |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Leaves rduced/Absent |
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Type |
- |
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Shape |
- |
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Length |
Tiny |
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Margins |
- |
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Attachment |
- |
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Other Features |
- |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Wet sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
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