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Acacia chrysopoda

Acacia chrysopoda
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0

Acacia chrysopoda is a compact, densely branched Western Australian wattle shrub, usually 0.3 to 1 m tall, with golden-yellow ball-shaped flower heads in July to August. It needs full sun and very well-drained, sandy or loamy soil, and is tolerant of dry conditions once established.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly while establishing, then rarely; allow soil to dry out fully between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or loamy soil; avoid heavy, wet clay.
Temperature
10–30 °C; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. & S. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia chrysopoda is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a compact, densely branched shrub, with hairy branchlets, linear phyllodes crowded at the ends of branchlets, spherical heads of light golden yellow flowers and linear to narrowly oblong, more or less curved, thinly leathery pods.

Where it grows

This species of wattle grows in sand or loam in Eucalyptus woodland between Karlgarin Hill and south to Newdegate and Lake King in the Coolgardie and Mallee bioregions of south-western 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 chrysopoda 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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