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Acacia abbatiana

Acacia abbatiana
Photo: A.R.Bean colllected the specimen, CC BY 4.0

Acacia abbatiana is a rare Queensland wattle shrub, known only from Mount Abbott in central Queensland, growing in heath on granite-derived soils. Little is documented about cultivation, so care advice below is general and tentative.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established, letting the soil dry between drinks, as is typical for Australian heath wattles.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or gritty mix; acidic to neutral
Temperature
Tolerates warm conditions; frost tolerance unknown, protect below about 0 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
Queensland
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Acacia abbatiana is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Mount Abbott in Queensland. It has linear phyllodes, flowers arranged in a spike about 5 mm (0.20 in) in diameter, and a pod up to 35 mm (1.4 in) long.

Where it grows

This wattle species is only known from Mount Abbott in central Queensland where it grows in heath on slopes in soil derived from granite.

Other Acacia plants

Acacia abbreviata · Acacia abrupta · Acacia acanthaster · Harrow Wattle · Acacia acellerata · Gold-dust acacia · Acacia aciphylla · Acacia acoma · Acacia acradenia · Strap Leaved Wattle · Acacia acuaria · Snake Wattle

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia abbatiana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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