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Acacia burkittii
Also called Sandhill Wattle
Acacia burkittii is a multi-stemmed shrub or small tree from arid southern Australia, grown for its golden spring flowers and string-of-beads pods. It is hardy in dry, sandy, free-draining conditions and is best suited to dry-climate gardens.
Acacia burkittii, Burkitt's wattle, gunderbluey, pin bush, sandhill wattle and fine leaf jam, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to arid parts of southern continental Australia. It is a shrub or tree, usually with many stems, erect, linear to thread-like phyllodes, oblong to cylindrical spike of golden-yellow flowers and firmly papery pods appearing like a string of beads.
Burkitt's wattle grows in a variety of soils in mallee, eucalypt and mulga, often on sandhills in the Avon Wheatbelt, Central Ranges, Coolgardie, Gascoyne, Geraldton Sandplains, Gibson Desert, Great Victoria Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Mallee, Murchison, Nullarbor and Yalgoo bioregions of Western Australia, the south of South Australia and the western slopes and plains of New South Wales. It has also been introduced into India.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia burkittii 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.
