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Acacia blakelyi

Acacia blakelyi
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Acacia blakelyi is a dense, glabrous wattle shrub or small tree from south-western Western Australia, grown for its bright golden-yellow flower balls in winter and early spring. It thrives in well-drained sandy soil in full sun.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently, letting the soil dry between waterings; established plants need little supplementary water.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or loam mix; tolerates poor, sandy soils.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates light frost once established.
How easy
Easy
Native range
WSW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia blakelyi is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an often dense, glabrous shrub or tree with flattened, linear to very narrowly elliptic phyllodes, spherical heads of bright golden-yellow flowers, and narrowly elliptic pods.

Where it grows

This species of wattle grows in sand on beaches, on sandplains or in woodland or shrubland between Cooloomia Nature Reserve about 70 km (43 mi) north of Kalbarri, and Regans Ford and Piawaning, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain 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 blakelyi 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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