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Acacia dawsonii
Also called Poverty Wattle, Dawson Wattle, Dawson's Wattle
Mitta wattle is an erect or spreading evergreen shrub or small tree from south-eastern Australia, grown mainly for its golden flower heads. It is hardy and adaptable, and tolerates a range of soils and climates.
Acacia dawsonii commonly known as poverty wattle, Dawson's wattle, or mitta wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern, continental Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub with very narrowly elliptic to linear phyllodes, spherical heads of light golden yellow flowers and linear, thinly leathery pods.
This species is not widely cultivated but is quite hardy and suitable for a wide range of climates.
Poverty wattle grows in grassland and eucalypt woodland in rocky, clay or sandy soils to an area down the east coast from as far north as Stanthorpe in south east Queensland, through the slopes and tablelands of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, to Mitta Mitta in north east Victoria.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia dawsonii 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.
