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Acacia crassiuscula

Acacia crassiuscula
Photo: pimelea, CC BY 4.0

Acacia crassiuscula is a spindly, erect wattle shrub from south-west Western Australia, grown mainly for its cream flower heads. It does best in full sun and well-drained sandy soil, as it is native to sandy scrub and heath.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water young plants regularly until established, then let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty mix; avoid heavy, wet soil.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates light frost once established.
How easy
Easy
Native range
S. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia crassiuscula is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, often spindly or straggly shrub with linear, somewhat rigid phyllodes, spherical heads of cream-coloured flowers and linear, thinly leathery pods.

Where it grows

This species of wattle is native to an area along the south coast of Western Australia between Albany and Cape Arid National Park with two disjunct populations north and north-west of Walpole. It grows in sand in scrub mallee and heath in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Warren bioregions of 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 crassiuscula 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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