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La Ensenada, Los Lagos Region, Chile
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A sky-blue pea flower, native to both east and west Africa, not to mention Madagascar. Photo from the Kapeni River area of Malawi.
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New South Wales, Australia
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Family: FabaceaeDistribution:Common and gregarious on hedges and trees in forest areas. Distributed in India, SriLanka, Bangladesh, China and N.Australia. Photographed at velugonda hills of Eastrenghats of A.P.Description: Large woody climber, Leaves imparipinnate, Leaflets 2.5-4x0.8-2cm, elliptic-oblong, retuse, base rounded or cuneate,coriaceous, shining and glabrous above, puberulous below.Flowers 1-1.5cm long white in 10-20cm long axillary drooping racemes. Bracts and bracteoles small, cauducous. Calyx tube companulate, teeth very short, purple in color. corolla much exerted, standard obovate, wings obliquely oblong. Stamens 10 monodelphous, anthers uniform, versatile. ovary sessile, few ovuled. Pod 4.5-8cm thin indehiscent , winged along the upper suture only. It is used as fish poison.Reference: Flora of Nellore district by B.Suryanarayana & A.S.Rao.Flora of presidency of Madras by J.S Gamble, ENVIS
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Hobe Sound, Florida, United States
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Family: CaesalpinaceaeDistribution: Limited to Peninsular India ; Common in scrub forests especially on the dry hill slopes.Photographed at Eastren ghats of Nellore district. Armed straggling shrubs, prickles recurved, Leaves 8-10cm,long, pinnate, leaflets 8-10pairs, 0.5-1.0x0.2-0.5cm, oblong, obovate, sessile,flowers 0.6-1.0cm white, with pinkishtinge, Pods pnk,3-4x1-1.2cm oblong samariod. 1-seededReference: Flora of presidency of Madras by J.S Gamble, ENVIS, Flora of Nellore district By B.Suryanarayana &A.S Rao
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Known as Purple Broom and as September Bush. This species is native to southern and eastern Africa, but has been planted more widely. Photo from near Liparamba, Tanzania.
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Noosa Heads, Queensland, Australia
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Gundaroo, New South Wales, Australia
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Panama, Panama
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Hobe Sound, Florida, United States
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We found a population of Gastrolobium hookeri fowering in September. What a pretty sight it was growing both sides of the track on a hill slope. It is a low shrub growing to 0.5m tall. There were few insects there, just the occasional native bee and ants. Photo: Fred
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Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia