Gompholobium have the best names! Glory Pea, Yellow Hairy Pea….

Day 45, Gompholobium tomentosa, Lowlands Reserve, Tuesday 8 December 2020

You can see why its called yellow hairy pea, Lowlands Coastal Reserve , 5 December 2020

We are having a very stretched out flowering season for many Lowlands Reserve natives. Yellow hairy pea (Gompholobium tomentosa) has been flowering for weeks, and so many of them are popping up beside the Bibbulmun track, much more than in earlier years, and Glory pea (Gompholobium confertum, featured on Day 12) is having a third wave of flowering.

You can see the purple gompholobium Glory pea, now in its 3rd wave of flowering, all the other photos are of the yellow hairy pea, how big are its fruits!, Lowlands Coastal Reserve , 5 December 2020

I see that livingessences.com.au make a yellow hairy pea flower essence , which they state is :

• For the person anxiously facing choices they are not ready to make.
• For those who are trying to keep many activities going because they are unsure of which ones to focus on.

It’s certainly hard for me to remain anxious around the yellow hairy pea , as I sing and dance my little ditty along the way :

“Yellow hairy peas are the bees knees, the bees knees, the bees knees….”

Occasionally breaking into a rendition of Paul Young “Yes, we’re living in
The love of the common names
Smiles from the heart
Of the Gompholobiums”

Love those common names “Glory Pea” , “Yellow Hairy Peas”, and the freedom they bring! No anxieties about getting an incorrect species name , just use a common name, like gum tree or wattle or yellow star , and you’ll mostly be safe, to paraphrase Humpty Dumpty “When I use a name ,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what species I choose it to mean — neither more nor less. ‘ ‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make names mean so many different species. ‘

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