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  Gastrolobium praemorsum - 'Brown Butterfly'

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  Gastrolobium praemorsum - 'Brown Butterfly'

The unusual brown foliage with a green edge gives this cultivar its intriguing name. It is a ground covering plant that is great for embankments, as a feature plant spilling over retaining walls or as a potted plant. Being a legume, it can fix nitrogen from the air for nutrition and therefore needs much less fertiliser than non-legumes. Give it a light trim after a heavy flush of flowers and it will continue to thicken up as a ground cover. The brown colour of the foliage is more intense in full sun.

Gastrolobium species can contain amounts of fluoro acetic acid, which can be toxic for dogs and livestock.