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Acacia calcicola
Also called Northern Myall, Shrubby Mulga, Myall Gidgee, Shrubby Wattle
Grey myall is a rounded shrub or straggly tree from arid central Australia, grown for its grey foliage and drought tolerance. It thrives in full sun and well-drained, often calcareous soil.
Acacia calcicola, commonly known as shrubby wattle, shrubby mulga, myall-gidgee, northern myall and grey myall is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is native to arid areas of central Australia. The Pitjantjatjara peoples know the tree as ikatuka, the Warlpiri know it as jirlarti and the Arrernte know it as irrakwetye. It is a rounded shrub or straggly tree, with narrowly linear, linear or very narrowly elliptic phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers, and more or less woody pods resembling a string of beads up to 120 mm (4.7 in) long.
This species of wattle is widespread in arid central Australia and is found in the southern Northern Territory the Central Ranges, Great Sandy Desert, Great Victoria Desert bioregions of Western Australia, central-western South Australia, near Tibooburra in the far north-west of New South Wales with scattered populations in south-west Queensland. It grows along ephemeral watercourses and on degraded sand dunes as part of low open woodland and tall open shrubland communities. It grows well in heavy calcareous soils usually over limestone and is often associated with Acacia aneura.
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 calcicola 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.
