Sturt's desert pea has striking, blood-red flowers with bulbous black centres, and is the South Australian floral emblem.
Swainsona formosa (Image: Steve Ruddy)
Species Information ...
Senna sturtii ( Senna )
Senna x floribunda ( Senna )
Sequoia sempervirens ( Adpressa Redwood ) ...
Gossypium sturtianum
Family: Malvaceae
Sturt's Desert Rose
Origin: Australia ...
1 (2)m, Sturt's Desert Pea is a most ornamental semiperennial to perennial Australian native with quite large, scarlet to deep red, keeled flowers on soft-wooded, prostate stem with hairy, grayish green, feathered foliage.
Gossypium sturtianum
Although Hibiscus can enhance the 'native' garden, Hibiscus species are not without problems.
Book Review: Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World. Reviewed by Ian Hartland. 1976 #1, p 8
Book Review: Edible and Useful Plants in California. 1986 #1, p 17
Looking Forward to the 1980's. By Claude Sweet. 1980 #1 pp 3-4 ...
Tropical Hibiscus [English]: Hibiscus rosa-sinensis 'Mary Sturter'
Tropical Hibiscus [English]: Hibiscus rosa-sinensis 'Mary Wallace'
Tropical Hibiscus [English]: Hibiscus rosa-sinensis 'Mary Wallace sport' ...
Northern Territory - Sturt's Desert Rose (Gossypium sturtianum)
Queensland - Cooktown Orchid (Dendrobium phalaenopsis)
South Australia - Sturt's Desert Pea (Swainsona formosa)
Tasmania - Tasmanian Blue Gum (Eucalyptus globulus) ...
It is currently most widespread and troublesome in the Northern Territory, where it is a significant weed in the Darwin, Victoria River, Daly River and Gulf Coastal regions, and an emerging threat in the VRD-Sturt bioregion.
[2]Hedrick. U. P. Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World.
Lots of entries, quite a lot of information in most entries and references.
[11]Bean. W. Trees and Shrubs Hardy in Great Britain. Vol 1 - 4 and Supplement.
Fancy Dahlias are Buffalo Bill, Charles Wyatt, Comedian, Duchess of Albany, Frank Pearce, Gaiety, General Gordon, H. Eckford, H. Glasscock, Fanny Sturt, Mrs Ocock, Mrs Saunders, Peacock, Rebecca, Rev. J. B. M. Camm, Sunset, T.W.Girdlestone.
white; elegans, yellowish white and purple; gigantea, blue; kewensis, rose-carmine (a hybrid between N. devoniensis and N. Lotus); Lotus, red, white; pubescens, white; scutifolia, bright blue; stellata, blue, with several varieties; and Sturtevanti, ...
odorata yields also an odorous oil used by soapmakers in Australia. E. Staigeriana, the Lemon-scented Iron Bark, has also a very pleasing scent, and the fragrance of the leaves of E. Sturtiana is similar to that of ripe apples.
sturtii (Dense senna, Grey Desert Senna)
Senna bicapsularis (Winter Cassia)
Senna candolleana (Golden Senna)
Senna corymbosa (Argentina Senna)
Senna didymobotrya
Senna hirsuta var. hirsuta (Woolly Senna) ...
 See also: May, Medic, Green, Fern, India
  
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