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Acacia crombiei
Pink gidgee (Acacia crombiei) is a small wattle tree from dry central Queensland, growing up to about 10 m with narrow leathery phyllodes. It is a hardy, drought-tolerant species best grown in full sun in free-draining soil in warm, dry climates.
Acacia crombiei, commonly known as pink gidgee, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Queensland Australia. It is a tree with twisted, glabrous branchlets and narrowly linear, leathery phyllodes, flowers in spherical heads and narrowly oblong firmly papery to thinly leathery pods.
This species of wattle grows in small, isolated populations around the small town of Muttaburra to around Elmore Station north of Richmond in central Queensland. It has been collected as far south as around Winton north over a distance of 450 km (280 mi) to around Greenvale. The species occurs in an area of around 34,000 km2 (13,000 sq mi) with 15 sub-populations with an estimated total population of about 20,000 individual plants. It grows in open Acacia scrub in open woodland, open forest and dry rainforest, ofen with Acacia cambagei in clay, sandy clay, loam, stony sand and gravelly soils on plains and hills.
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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.
