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Acacia chisholmii
Chisholm's wattle (Acacia chisholmii), also called turpentine bush, is a multi-stemmed, spreading desert shrub from arid north-eastern Australia that tolerates dry, stony, shallow-soiled ground. It is a species, not a genus, and is grown mainly in dry-climate or native gardens.
Acacia chisholmii, commonly known as turpentine bush or Chisholm's wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to arid areas of north-eastern Australia. It is a shrub with many spreading stems, erect, linear phyllodes, spikes of golden yellow flowers and linear, curved, leathery pods.
Turpentine bush occurs in western parts of Queensland and westwards to the Mount Isa–Cloncurry area where it on stony often lateritic plains with shallow, sandy soils or in undulating country and on escarpments in grassland or Eucalypt woodland and spinifex communities. A single collection has been made near Lake Nash in the Northern Territory.
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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.
