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Acacia crassicarpa
Also called Northern Wattle, Thick Pod Salwood, Northern Territory Wattle, Papua New Guinea Red Wattle, Black Wattle, Brown Salwood, Hickory Wattle
Thick-podded salwood is a fast-growing tree from tropical Queensland and New Guinea, grown mainly for timber, shade and soil improvement rather than as a garden ornamental. It does best in full sun, warm wet conditions and sandy or rocky soil.
Acacia crassicarpa, commonly known as thick-podded salwood, lancewood, northern golden wattle or northern wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is native to Queensland, Australia and New Guinea. It is a tree with lance-shaped, more or less sickle-shaped phyllodes, spikes of pale to light golden yellow flowers and flat, narrowly oblong to oblong, winged pods.
Thick-podded salwood grows in woodlands and open forest in sandy or rocky soils in tropical Queensland, the islands of Torres Strait and as far south as Townsville with disjunct populations on Whitsunday Island and near Mackay. It also occurs in Irian Jaya and Papua New Guinea.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia crassicarpa 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.
