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Acacia araneosa
Also called Spidery Wattle
Balcanoona wattle is a small, wispy tree native to the arid ranges of northern South Australia, with pendulous rounded phyllodes and spherical heads of yellow flowers. It is a wild desert species rather than a common garden plant, so its care needs are drawn mainly from general knowledge of arid-zone Acacia.
Acacia araneosa, commonly known as Balcanoona wattle or spidery wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to South Australia. It is a small, wispy tree with pendulous phyllodes that are circular in cross section, racemes of spherical heads of yellow flowers, and linear pods up to 145 mm (5.7 in) long.
Balcanoona wattle has a limited distribution in association with Eucalyptus gillii and Triodia irritans in the Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park, from Balcanoona to Arkaroola, where it is found on rocky slopes, ridges and hills in open woodland, in skeletal soils.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia araneosa 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.
