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| Sturt Desert Pea |
Emerging from the harsh environment of desert
sands, Sturt Desert Peas' add vibrant reds to an already colourful
landscape. Aboriginal dreamtime story of the Pea; a beautiful young
maiden was promised to a young warrior who gave her a cloak of red
parrot feathers. She roamed the arid lands with her warrior and tribe.
When drought hit her warrior was sent afar to search for food.
He didn’t return, the tribe moved on, she remained for her warrior.
The last view by the tribe was her surrounded by her red cloak
surrounding her black head as she knelt on the ground waiting for his
return. In 1961 the Pea was adopted as South Australia’s native floral
emblem that was named after explorer Captain Charles Sturt, who in the
early 1840’s explored remote regions of South and Central Australia.
