Scientific Name: Almaleea subumbellata

Common Name: wiry bushpea

Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots

Family: Fabaceae

Form Description: Slender shrub.

Height (m): 0.3 – 0.6

Flowers: Pea flowers, almost stalkless, with deep orange-yellow petals and purple markings on wings.

Fruit: Seed pod – small, broadly oval and inflated, valves hard.

Municipality
Break O’DayBurnieCentral HighlandsClarenceDerwent ValleyDorsetFlindersGeorge TownGlamorgan-Spring BayHuon ValleyKentishKingboroughLatrobeLauncestonMeander ValleyNorthern MidlandsSouthern MidlandsTasmanWaratah-WynyardWest CoastWest Tamar
Plant Communities
HeathRiparian
Habitat Notes

Widespread and locally abundant in wet heaths and margins of streams and tarns, sea level to 1000m.

Site Tolerance

Moist

Soil Tolerance

Fertile, Loam, Nutrient-poor, Poorly-drained, Well-drained

Frost Tolerance

Hardy

Propagation Calendar

  • Flowering Month
    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
  • Seed Collecting Month
    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
  • Sowing Month
    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
  • Cutting Month
    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Propagation Method
Seed

Seed Information

Seed Treatment Method

Hot Water Hot water is used to soften the hard seed case of some species. This replicates the weathering process. Pour hot (not boiling) water over the seeds and allow them to soak for 4-12 hours.

Seed Treatment Notes

Seed extraction can be difficult; leaving seeds attached to branch appears to aid opening of pod or pods may need to be crushed. Nicking seed before sowing is the best treatment but can be tedious.