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Sweet Pea Bush Native to South Africa where they can grow to 2 metres. Lance shaped grey-green leaves and clusters of small blooms at the ends of branches. Very salt tolerant so suitable for my coastal garden. This being a 'petite butterfly' cultivar and will reach 1 metre. Australia,Butterfly Bush,Fabales,Flowers,Geotagged,Macro,Milkwort,Petite Butterfly,Polygala fruticosa,Polygalaceae,Spring,Sweet,botany,flora,plant,purple flowers,spring Click/tap to enlarge Species introCountry intro

Sweet Pea Bush

Native to South Africa where they can grow to 2 metres. Lance shaped grey-green leaves and clusters of small blooms at the ends of branches. Very salt tolerant so suitable for my coastal garden. This being a 'petite butterfly' cultivar and will reach 1 metre.

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The Petite Butterfly

A beautiful, long-lasting flowering display of purplish magenta or violet blooms is produced by the Petite Butterfly sweet pea shrub. This evergreen shrub is native to South Africa on mountain slopes and coastal hills. It attains a bushy, rounded habit about waist high.

Unlike most other members of the Polygala genus, this species has opposite-arranged leaves on its branches. Moreover, the gray-green leaves of 'Petite Butterfly' are shaped like rounded hearts. The main flowering season.. more

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Similar species: Fabales
Species identified by Patomarazul
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By Ruth Spigelman

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Uploaded Oct 20, 2018. Captured Sep 19, 2018 10:18 in 76 Hickson St, Merewether NSW 2291, Australia.
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  • Canon EOS 60D
  • f/4.5
  • 1/128s
  • ISO200
  • 100mm
Captured in the winter. More winter photos.