glory pea

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glory pea (plural glory peas)

  1. Any of several similar leguminous plants with showy scarlet or crimson flowers.
    1. Sturt's desert pea (Swainsona formosa, syn. Clianthus dampieri), of Australia and New Zealand.
    2. Kakabeaks (Cilanthus spp.)
      1. especially, northern kakabeak (Clianthus puniceus), of Australia and New Zealand.
    3. scarlet sesbane (Sesbania punicea), native from Brazil to Argentina, cultivated widely, but invasive.

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