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Acacia daviesii

Acacia daviesii
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0

Acacia daviesii, known as Timbertop wattle, is a small shrub endemic to a restricted area of central Victoria, Australia, growing up to about 2.5 m. It spreads by root suckers and is best suited to dry, open, sunny sites like the Eucalyptus woodland it naturally inhabits.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; allow soil to dry between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gravelly soil; tolerates poor soil.
Temperature
Tolerates cool to warm temperate conditions; protect from severe frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Victoria
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia daviesii, commonly known as Timbertop wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of Victoria, Australia. It is a shrub with pendulous branchlets, broadly elliptic to more or less circular phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers and oblong, slightly curved pods.

Where it grows

Timbertop wattle is endemic to a small area in central Victoria and is only found at a few of sites to the south east of Mansfield around the Howqua River and Mount Timbertop where it can form dense stands of plants only known to reproduce by root-suckering. It grows in dry open Eucalyptus woodland and forest.

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 daviesii 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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