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Acacia acradenia is a spindly wattle shrub or small tree native to northern and central Australia, grown mainly as a native garden or landscape plant. It is a species, not a houseplant, and suits warm, dry, open sites with well-drained soil.
Acacia acradenia, commonly known as Velvet Hill wattle and silky wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is native to northern and central Australia. It is a spindly shrub or tree with elliptic or narrowly elliptic phyllodes, spikes of orange or golden flowers and linear, crustaceous pods. The Nyangumarta peoples know it as walypuna the Alyawarr call it ampwey, the Jaminjung and Ngaliwurru know it as mindiwirri, the Jaru as binbali or gundalyji, the Kaytetye as ampweye or arwele and the Warlpiri as ngardurrkura.
Velvet Hill wattle is found throughout the Northern Territory extending east into Queensland as far as Prairie and Western Australia. In Western Australia it has a scattered distribution through the Kimberley, Pilbara and northern Goldfields regions. It is found on rocky plains or rocky hills, and along watercourses or damp areas. It grows well in stony soils, skeletal loams or clay pans as part of spinifex and Eucalypt communities. Localized colonies form in areas following disturbance such as fire.
Indigenous Australians use the species as a food source, water source, shade or shelter and to make weapons and implements.
Acacia abbatiana · Acacia abbreviata · Acacia abrupta · Acacia acanthaster · Harrow Wattle · Acacia acellerata · Gold-dust acacia · Acacia aciphylla · Acacia acoma · Strap Leaved Wattle · Acacia acuaria · Snake Wattle
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia acradenia 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.
