Family: Fabaceae-Faboideae
Plant: Shrub to 1.5m high.
Flowers: Broad lobed yellow pea flowers with red markings, 10-15mm wide, in clusters at tips of branches.
Flowering: June-November
Fruit: Pod, 4-7mm long.
Leaves: Linear, upper surface grooved, 6-12mm long, crowded, spirally twisted and smooth.
Habitat: Heathland and dry sclerophyll forest on well-drained soils.
Features: Spirally-twisted leaves. Yellow and red pea flowers with kidney-shaped standard petal
Name:
Dillwynia After the English botanist Lewis Weston Dillwyn
retorta From Latin = twisted (referring to its leaves)
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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 |
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Pod |
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Colour |
Green, Brown |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate, Crowded |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Linear, Needle-like |
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Length |
Tiny, Short |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Unstalked |
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Other Features |
- |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
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