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Deane's wattle

Acacia deanei

Also called Green Wattle

Deane's wattle
Photo: Russell Best, CC BY 4.0

Acacia deanei, known as green wattle or Deane's wattle, is a native Australian shrub or small tree from eastern Australia that grows in many soil types. It is a species rather than a genus, and it is not a common garden plant, so care notes come mainly from general knowledge of wattles.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water young plants regularly until established, then let the soil dry between waterings; it tolerates dry conditions.
Soil
Well-drained soil, sandy or loamy; tolerates poor soils.
Temperature
Hardy in cool to warm temperate and subtropical climates; tolerates frost in its native inland range.
How easy
Easy
Native range
SC. Queensland to N. Victoria
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia deanei, commonly known as green wattle or Deane's wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is shrub or tree with leathery, bipinnate leaves, heads of cream-coloured, pale yellow or yellow flowers and linear to narrowly oblong, leathery pods.

Where it grows

Acacia deanei plant is widespread in inland, southern Queensland, central New South Wales and central Victoria. It is found in a variety of sclerophyll communities in a range of different soil types.

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 deanei 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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