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Image Credit: Anna Povey – with permission
Scientific Name: Gompholobium huegelii
Common Name: common wedgepea
Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots
Family: Fabaceae
Form Description: A slender pea with woody base and spreading or ascending branches.
Height (m): 0.15 – 0.3
Flowers: Pea flowers, solitary or two together, usually creamy yellow, shaded black on the outside.
Fruit: Seed pod – fat oval, containing numerous small seeds which are dropped on maturity.
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Habitat Notes
This form is common in sandy heathland and light forest but a form with bright yellow flowers and blue-green leaves also occurs in sandy heaths and in gravel ironstone soils. Tolerates most frosts and extended dry periods.
Site Tolerance
Dry, Moist, Shady
Soil Tolerance
Loam, Nutrient-poor, Sandy, Well-drained
Frost Tolerance
Hardy
General Notes
Useful for recharge control plantings in conjunction with trees in hilly areas. Often short lived in cultivation. Seems to require very good drainage and protection from other plants.
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Propagation Method
Seed Information
Seed Treatment Method
Boiling Water Pour boiling water over the seed and allow to soak for 24 hours before sowing.
Seed Storage Life
Long
Seed Treatment Notes
Nicking the seed provides best results but is tedious. Soaking in boiling water provides good germination results, but may be difficult to grow successfully. Soak for maximum of 12 hours.
Germination Time
2-6 weeks
Cutting & Division Information
Can be grown from cuttings. Semi-hardwood cuttings of new growth are easy.