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Acacia conjunctifolia

Acacia conjunctifolia
Photo: Ferdinand von Mueller (1825-1896), Robert Graff (fl 1887), Public domain

Acacia conjunctifolia is a sticky, glabrous shrub up to about 2 m tall, native to northern Australia, where it grows in woodland on sandy or stony soils. It is a wattle, so its key needs are full sun and well-drained soil.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; allow soil to dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gravelly mix; tolerates poor, stony soils.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
NW. & NE. Northern Territory to NW. Queensland
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Acacia conjunctifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is a glabrous, sticky shrub with phyllodes sometimes arranged in clusters, spikes of pale yellow flowers and erect, straight to slightly curved linear to narrowly lance-shaped pods.

Where it grows

This species of wattle is found through the top end of the Northern Territory and a small part of north western Queensland where it grows in stony and sandy soils usually on laterite or quartzite in Eucalypt woodlands or scrubby open forest communities. It is also found in Western Australia where it is found in the Northern Kimberley and Victoria Bonaparte bioregions on sandstone outcrops above creek beds.

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 conjunctifolia 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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