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Acacia besleyi

Acacia besleyi, known as Bes' wattle, is a rounded, bushy shrub native to a small area near Ravensthorpe in south-west Western Australia, known only from a few populations. It is a wild species of little horticultural use, grown mainly by collectors in its subtropical or Mediterranean-type climate.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; it is adapted to dry mallee conditions and tolerates drought.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gravelly soil; tolerates poor, rocky ground.
Temperature
Tolerates warm, dry summers and mild winters; frost tolerance is unrecorded, so protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia besleyi, also known as Bes' wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a small area near Ravensthorpe in the south-west of Western Australia. It is a rounded, often bushy shrub with linear, thinly leathery phyllodes, spherical heads of yellow flowers and narrowly oblong pods up to 30 mm (1.2 in) long.

Where it grows

Bes' wattle is only known from a few populations in the Ravensthorpe Range, where it grows in undulating country in rocky places in mallee scrub.

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 besleyi 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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