Podalyria sericea
Common name
Satin bush
Family
Fabaceae
Flora category
Vascular – Exotic
Structural class
Trees & Shrubs - Dicotyledons
Habitat
Terrestrial. Especially at coastal sites.
Features
Erect shrub to about 1 m tall, appearing silvery due to abundant silky hairs. Simple obovate leaves very shortly petiolate up to 35 mm long. Pink flowers about 10 mm long, held singly in the axils of upper leaves. The seed pod is up to 35 mm long.
Similar taxa
This species is distinguished from all of the other leguminous shrubs by the large simple silky leaves and the small solitary axillary flowers and very large, inflated, sausage like pods.
Flowering
throughout the year.
Flower colours
Red/Pink
Year naturalised
1992
Origin
South Africa
Reason For Introduction
Ornamental
Reproduction
Seed
Dispersal
People, gravity.
Tolerances
Can tolerate salt