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Acacia clydonophora

Acacia clydonophora
Photo: Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0

Acacia clydonophora is a small, open wattle shrub from south-west Western Australia, growing to about 0.7 to 1.5 m with grey-green phyllodes and cream to yellow flower heads. It is best grown in full sun with excellent drainage, as it is adapted to lateritic ridges.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established, letting the soil dry out between waterings, and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or loamy soil, ideally with some gravel; lateritic or gritty mixes suit it well.
Temperature
Mild subtropical conditions suit it; protect from frost, roughly below 0 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
WSW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia clydonophora is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a glabrous, open shrub with striated branchlets, elliptic to narrowly elliptic phyllodes, spherical heads of cream-coloured to creamy yellow flowers, and erect, linear, curved pods.

Where it grows

This species of wattle is native to near-coastal areas of Western Australia between Dandaragan and Chittering where it grows on lateritic ridges and breakaways in sandy or loam over lateritic gravel in the Geraldton Sandplains and Swan Coastal Plain 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 clydonophora 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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