Chorizema ilicifolium, commonly known as holly flame pea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the coast of southern Western Australia. It is a slender, erect to spreading shrub with prickly, egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves and yellowish-orange and red pea flowers.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Holly flame pea being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Chorizema retrorsum
- Chorizema cordatum
- Chorizema rhombeum
- Chorizema dicksonii
- Chorizema glycinifolium
- Chorizema reticulatum
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Fabales
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Chorizema
- Species
- Chorizema ilicifolium
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