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Acacia aciphylla

Acacia aciphylla
Photo: New South Wales Herbarium, CC BY 4.0

Acacia aciphylla is a bushy, prickly wattle shrub from south-west Western Australia, growing 0.6 to 1.8 m tall with golden-yellow flowers from July to September. It is grown for its tough, drought-tolerant nature and showy blooms in dry, well-drained gardens.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply during establishment, then rely mostly on rainfall and let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or loamy soil; tolerates lateritic and rocky ground.
Temperature
Tolerates warm, dry summers and mild winters; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
W. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia aciphylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a bushy, prickly shrub with down-turned, rigid, sharply-pointed phyllodes, flowers arranged in oval heads usually arranged in pairs in leaf axils, and linear pods up to 90 mm (3.5 in) long.

Where it grows

The plant grows in sandy, loamy and lateritic soils and on granite outcrops and rocky ridges in mixed shrub-land communities. It has a broken distribution between Kalbarri, Mullewa and Morawa.

Other Acacia plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia aciphylla 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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