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Blunt Wattle

Acacia aprica

Blunt Wattle
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0

Acacia aprica is a small, open, spreading wattle shrub from south-west Western Australia, grown for its golden flower heads in winter and spring. It needs full sun and free-draining soil, and tolerates dry conditions once established.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then sparingly; allow the soil to dry between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or loamy soil; tolerates poor, nutrient-low soils.
Temperature
Mild to warm conditions; tolerates light frost, protect from hard frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
WSW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia aprica, commonly known as blunt wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of the south-west of Western Australia. It is a diffuse, open, spreading shrub sessile, incurved phyllodes that are circular to 4-sided in cross section, and one or two racemes of heads of 40 to 55, usually golden flowers, and linear, crust-like pods up to 60 mm (2.4 in) long.

Where it grows

Blunt wattle grows on plains and rocky hills between Carnamah and Coorow in the Avon Wheatbelt and Geraldton Sandplains 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 aprica 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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