The first pea!

One of the objects of desire amongst aficionados of Australian Native Plants is the flowering of the 'peas'.  This refers to members of the family now known as Fabaceae (ie 'beans': go figure) with yellow/red flowers.  We have a reasonably good collection of these on our property but until today we had not found any flowering.

That changed when Frances spotted some flowers on a Daviesia mimosoides.
Undoubtedly the excellently warm weather (maxima over 20 degrees and no fire needed for 3 nights) has got these going.

We have had excellent representation of the purple members of the Fabaceae - which don't seem to be viewed as 'peas' - with the mauve Hovea heterophylla everywhere and Hardenbergia violaceae anywhere that nothing else will grow.  I thought this one, growing up a eucalypt sapling very attractive.

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