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Acacia alleniana

Acacia alleniana
Photo: Fox, Jeff, CC BY 4.0

Acacia alleniana is a spindly, open shrub or tree native to northern Australia, growing in seasonally dry tropical areas. It is best suited to warm, sunny sites with well-drained, sandy soil.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then reduce to mostly rainfall once established, as it tolerates dry spells.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or skeletal soil; avoid heavy, waterlogged soils.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect from frost below 5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
N. Northern Territory to NW. Queensland
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Acacia alleniana is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to northern parts of Australia. It is a spindly, open shrub or tree with slender branchlets, thread-like phyllodes, and yellow flowers arranged in 2 to 6 spherical heads in the axils of phyllodes, and thinly leathery pods up to 150 mm (5.9 in) long.

Where it grows

Acacia alleniana is native in the Northern Territory from around Darwin, south and east in Arnhem Land and on many of the islands in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Its range extends into far north-western Queensland where it is found on hills and sandstone slopes growing in skeletal sandy 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 alleniana 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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