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Acacia camptocarpa

Acacia camptocarpa, Ragged Range wattle, is a many-stemmed subshrub from northern Western Australia that grows about 0.6 to 1 m tall with golden yellow flower spikes. It is best suited to warm, dry, open sites with good drainage.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established and let the soil dry between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained loam or sandy mix, low in fertility.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia camptocarpa, commonly known as Ragged Range wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the north of Western Australia. It is a subshrub with a lignotuber at its base and many stems, narrowly elliptic, leathery phyllodes, spikes of golden yellow flowers, and oblong to narrowly oblong, thinly leathery to papery, curved pods up to 80 mm (3.1 in) long.

Where it grows

This species of wattle is only known from the Central Kimberley, Northern Kimberley and Ord Victoria Plain bioregions of northern Western Australia where it grows on loam on gentle sandstone slopes in open woodland.

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 camptocarpa 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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