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Acacia amblyophylla

Acacia amblyophylla
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0

Acacia amblyophylla is a bushy wattle shrub or small tree from the Shark Bay area of Western Australia, with golden flower heads and narrow phyllodes. It is grown mainly as a drought-tolerant garden or xeriscape shrub in warm, dry, sandy-soiled conditions.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; let the soil dry out between waterings and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or calcareous soil; tolerates alkaline conditions.
Temperature
15–35 °C; protect below about 0 °C
How easy
Easy
Native range
W. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia amblyophylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to an area near Shark Bay in the north-west of Western Australia. It is a bushy shrub or tree with a dense crown, many suckers, lance-shaped phyllodes with the narrower end towards the base, golden-coloured flowers arranged in spherical heads each of 24 to 26, and broadly linear to narrowly oblong pods up to 200 mm (7.9 in) long.

Where it grows

This species of wattle is native to an area near Shark Bay in the Gascoyne bioregion of Western Australia where it is found on limestone rises and coastal dunes growing in calcareous 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 amblyophylla 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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