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Acacia clandullensis

Acacia clandullensis
Photo: Allthingsnative, CC BY-SA 4.0

Acacia clandullensis, known as gold-dust wattle, is a small open shrub from the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, usually under 2 m tall. It is a native of stony sandy or clay-loam soils at higher altitudes, so give it open, well-drained conditions.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water young plants regularly until established, then allow the soil to dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or stony loam.
Temperature
5–30 °C; tolerates cold winters typical of the Tablelands, protect from hard frost when young.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
CE. New South Wales (C. Tablelands)
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia clandullensis, commonly known as gold-dust wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to New South Wales, Australia. It is an open shrub with hanging, densely hairy branchlets, more or less circular to elliptic or egg-shaped phyllodes with the narrower end towards the base, spherical heads of pale yellow to yellow flowers and straight, or slightly curved, glabrous, leathery to firm pods.

Where it grows

Gold-dust wattle is mostly found in the areas around Clandulla and Glen Davis growing at higher altitudes in stony sandy or clay-loam soils where it is usually part of open Eucalyptus rossii 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 clandullensis 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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