Eggs & bacon pea

Dillwynia retorta, commonly known as heathy parrot-pea or eggs-and-bacon pea, is a small to medium evergreen shrub in the family Fabaceae endemic to eastern Australia, where it occurs in heath, dry sclerophyll forest and sandstone woodland from southern Queensland through New South Wales to Victoria. It is an erect to somewhat straggling shrub typically 0.3 to 1.5 meters tall, with slender wiry branches. The alternate leaves are very narrow and almost terete, 5 to 15 millimeters long, often distinctively twisted (hence 'retorta'), with a small pointed tip. From late winter through spring the plant produces showy clusters of pea-flowers at the ends of branches; each flower has a yellow standard petal marked with red veining at the center and a reddish keel, giving the characteristic 'eggs and bacon' appearance shared with many Dillwynia. The fruit is a small inflated ovoid pod containing one or two hard seeds.