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Acacia abbreviata is a small, spreading, resinous desert shrub native to arid northern Australia, growing to about 0.3 to 0.6 m tall. It is rarely grown in gardens, and success depends on giving it the dry, sunny, well-drained conditions of its native stony ridges.
Acacia abbreviata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to arid parts of northern Australia. It is a spreading, glabrous, resinous shrub with linear to narrowly oblong phyllodes, spike of golden flowers, and linear to lance-shaped pods.
The shrub is found in a small area of the Tanami Desert in the Northern Territory close to the Western Australian border. It usually grows on stony lateritic ridges and plains where it grows in shallow clay loamy soils as a part of spinifex communities.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia abbreviata 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.
