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Acacia cambagei
Also called Gidgee Wattle, Stinking Wattle
Gidgee is a spreading, foul-smelling tree of arid and semi-arid inland Australia, growing 4 to 15 m tall with narrow leaf-like phyllodes and golden yellow flower heads. It is a drought-tolerant native that needs well-drained heavy clay or loam and very little water once established.
Acacia cambagei, commonly known as gidgee, gidyea, gidya, gidgea or stinking wattle is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to north-eastern Australia. It is a spreading, foul-smelling tree with narrowly elliptic to linear phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers, and narrowly oblong, papery pods up to 130 mm (5.1 in) long.
Gidgee is found in arid and semi-arid areas of eastern Australia, from central areas of the Northern Territory, north-eastern South Australia, central Queensland and north-western New South Wales.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia cambagei 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.
