This shrub has a short grey-brown trunk with spreading branches that form a rounded to prostrate habit. It has thick blue-green rounded leaves and the red pea-shaped flowers appear in clusters towards the end of the branches from winter to early spring.

Hardiness zones 9 to 10

Templetonia retusais naturally found from Western Australia to South Australia growing in mallee scrub in coastal and inland regions. It prefers a well drained moderately fertile to poor sandy-stony soil in a open sunny position and is frost tender, drought tolerant.

Cockies' Tongue is grown for its flowers and is planted in small or arid gardens as a specimen or in shrub borders and rockeries. It is also used in patio pots and suitable for coastal or inland regions establishing in 1 to 2 years.ID 2484

Templetonia(temp-lee-TON-ee-ah) retusa(ree-TOO-sa)

Fabaceae (fab-AY-see-ee)