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Acacia alexandri

Acacia alexandri
Photo: Kew Herbarium, CC BY 4.0

Acacia alexandri is a wattle shrub endemic to the Cape Range in north-west Western Australia, growing on rocky limestone hillsides. It is grown only occasionally, mainly by enthusiasts of Australian native plants in similar dry, sunny climates.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; allow soil to dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining, rocky or sandy loam, ideally alkaline limestone-type soil.
Temperature
15–35 °C; protect from frost below about 0 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
NW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia alexandri is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the Cape Range in the north-west of Western Australia. It is a glabrous shrub with slender branchlets, linear phyllodes, and cream-coloured flowers arranged in 1 or 2 spherical heads in the axils of phyllodes, and narrowly oblong, papery pods up to 70 mm (2.8 in) long.

Where it grows

This species of wattle is endemic to the Cape Range in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia around Cape Range where it is found on rocky limestone hillsides as part of mallee shrubland communities growing in rocky, pink loamy soils.

Other Acacia plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia alexandri 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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