desert pea

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desert pea

(Plants) an Australian trailing leguminous plant, Clianthus formosus, with scarlet flowers

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desert pea - sprawling shrubby perennial noted for its scarlet black-marked flowers; widely distributed in dry parts of Australia

Clianthus formosus, Clianthus speciosus, Sturt pea, Sturt's desert pea

clianthus, glory pea - any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Clianthus having compound leaves and pea-like red flowers in drooping racemes

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(2015), Nature's Gifts: the Australian Lectures of Henry George on the Ownership of Land and Other Natural Resources, Desert Pea Press, Sydney.

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The Australian Lectures of Henry George on the Ownership of Land & other Natural Resources, by John Pullen, 2014, Desert Pea Press, Sydney, ISBN 978 187686 124 7, xiii +225 pp., $34.95

Nature's Gifts. The Australian Lectures of Henry George on the Ownership of Land & other Natural Resources

Maluku Kuru is the name used by the local Aboriginal people for the Sturt's Desert Pea (Swainsona formosa), which grows in the area.

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The route is strewn with unusual flowers such as Sturt's desert pea and golden wattle.