Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Acacia burbidgeae

Acacia burbidgeae
Photo: Lachlan Copeland, CC BY-SA 4.0

Acacia burbidgeae, Burbidge's wattle, is an erect or spreading Australian shrub of 2 to 4 m with bright yellow flower heads, native to dry sclerophyll forest on sandy granitic soils. It is grown mainly as a drought-tolerant garden or native shrub and needs free-draining soil and full sun.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water young plants until established, then rely mostly on rainfall; allow soil to dry between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or gritty soil; tolerates poor, granitic soils.
Temperature
Tolerates hot, dry summers and mild frosts; protect from prolonged frost below about -5 °C.
How easy
Easy
Native range
S. Queensland to NE. New South Wales
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Acacia burbidgeae, commonly known as Burbidge's wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub with whorled or clustered, straight to slightly curved phyllodes, cylindrical heads of bright yellow flowers, and linear, firmly papery brown pods.

Where it grows

Burbidge's wattle is found in north eastern parts of New South Wales around Emmaville and to the south of Torrington and extending into south eastern parts of Queensland where it is a part of dry sclerophyll forests growing in sandy granitic soils. In Queensland its range extends from Cunnamulla in the west to St George in the east and Chinchilla in the north.

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 burbidgeae 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.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…