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Origin
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habit (Photo: Greg Jordan)

silvery hairy leaves (Photo: Greg Jordan)

pink pea-shaped flowers (Photo: Greg Jordan)

immature fruit and leaf undersides (Photo: Greg Jordan)

close-up of hairy fruit (Photo: Greg Jordan)

Podalyria sericea

Scientific Name

Podalyria sericea R. Br.

Family

Fabaceae (Queensland, the ACT, Victoria, Tasmania, and the Northern Territory)
Fabaceae: sub-family Faboideae (New South Wales)
Leguminosae (South Australia)
Papilionaceae (Western Australia)

Common Names

Cape satin bush, podalyria, silky podalyria, silky sweetpeabush, silver sweet pea bush

Origin

Native to southern Africa (i.e. Cape Province in South Africa).

Naturalised Distribution

Naturalised in southern Australia (i.e. naturalised in the coastal districts of south-western Western Australia, in southern Victoria and in Tasmania). Also sparingly naturalised in southern South Australia.

Notes

Silky podalyria (Podalyria sericea) is regarded as an environmental weed in Victoria, and as a minor environmental weed in Tasmania and Western Australia.