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Acacia bulgaensis

Acacia bulgaensis
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY-SA 3.0

Acacia bulgaensis, the Bulga wattle, is a shrub or small tree from a small area of the Hunter Valley in New South Wales, Australia. It is rarely grown outside its native range and is mainly of interest to native plant collectors.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; allow soil to dry between waterings, as wattles dislike waterlogging.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or sandstone-derived soil; tolerates poor, acidic soil.
Temperature
Frost-tolerant to moderate cold; protect from hard frost, especially when young.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
CE. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia bulgaensis, commonly known as Bulga wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a small area of New South Wales. It is a shrub or small tree with narrowly elliptic to very narrowly elliptic phyllodes, bright yellow flowers in pairs of heads in racemes in leafy shoots, and flat linear, thinly leathery pods, appearing somewhat like a string of beads.

Where it grows

Bulga wattle is endemic to the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales where it grows in hilly, sandstone country in open forest and woodland near Bulga, Broke and Milbrodale.

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 bulgaensis 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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