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Acacia camptoclada

Acacia camptoclada
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Acacia camptoclada is a low, spreading to erect wattle shrub native to arid and semi-arid Western Australia, growing in sand or clay in woodland and mallee. It is grown mainly for its golden yellow flower heads and is best kept in full sun with very little water once established.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly while establishing, then let the soil dry out fully between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty mix; tolerates poor, sandy or clay soils.
Temperature
Tolerates hot, dry summers and mild frosts; protect from prolonged frost below about -5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
S. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia camptoclada is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a low, spreading to erect, glabrous shrub with crowded, oblong to narrowly oblong phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers, and coiled, firmly papery to thinly leathery pods.

Where it grows

This species of wattle grows in sand or clay in woodland and mallee between Southern Cross to near Balladonia in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Great Victoria Desert, Mallee and Murchison bioregions of Western Australia.

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 camptoclada 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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