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Acacia anserina, known as hairy sandstone wattle, is a small erect shrub from the Kimberley region of Western Australia, usually about 1 m tall. It is a wattle (Acacia) species, so it is grown as a garden shrub rather than a common houseplant.
Acacia anserina, also known as hairy sandstone wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a small area in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. It is an erect, openly-branched shrub with its branchlets densely covered with soft hairs, widely elliptic to widely egg-shaped phyllodes with the narrower end towards the base, spherical heads of 17 to 25 light golden flowers, and narrowly oblong pods up to 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) wide.
The type specimen was collected from a pocket of dense vegetation on a gentle slope in the Princess May Range (in Prince Regent National Park) in the northern Kimberley Region of Western Australia, with about 200 plants in an area 50 m (160 ft) across.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia anserina 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.
