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Acacia acuminata
Also called Jamwood, Raspberry Jam Wattle
Jam wattle (Acacia acuminata) is a tall shrub or small conical tree from south-west Western Australia, grown for its bright green phyllodes and golden-yellow flower spikes. It is tolerant of a wide range of soils and dry conditions, and needs full sun.
Acacia acuminata, commonly known as raspberry jam, jam, jam wattle, jamwood, jam tree, or raspberry wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a tree with linear to narrowly elliptic phyllodes, spikes of golden-yellow flowers and papery to leathery pods.
Acacia acuminata grows in a variety of soils and habitats in the south-west of Western Australia from just north of the Murchison River, south to Borden and east to Balladonia, with outliers near Yalgoo and Paynes Find in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Great Victoria Desert, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Murchison, Nullarbor, Swan Coastal Plain and Yalgoo bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia acuminata 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.
