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Acacia andrewsii

Acacia andrewsii
Photo: Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY-SA 4.0

Acacia andrewsii is a spreading, intricately branched shrub from south-western Western Australia, growing to about 2 m with golden-yellow flower heads in winter and spring. It is a species of wattle grown mainly in dry, well-drained conditions.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established and let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or gritty mix; tolerates lateritic and limestone soils.
Temperature
10–30 °C; protect from frost below about -5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Acacia andrewsii is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an intricately branched shrub with narrowly oblong to lance-shaped, sometimes linear phyllodes, spherical heads of 20 to 30 golden-yellow flowers, and leathery pods up to 65 mm (2.6 in) long.

Where it grows

This species of Acacia often grows in low lateritic or limestone hills and granite outcrops in a variety of soil types in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains, Mallee, Murchison and Yalgoo bioregions of south-western Western Australia.

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 andrewsii 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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