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Acacia delicatula

Acacia delicatula
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Acacia delicatula is a small wattle shrub native to northern Australia, growing to about 1.5 m with thread-like phyllodes and yellow pompom flowers. It is grown mainly in dry-climate gardens and suits open, free-draining sites.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently, letting the soil dry out between waterings; established plants need little extra water.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or stony soil; tolerates poor, rocky ground.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect from frost below about 0 °C
How easy
Easy
Native range
N. Western Australia to N. Northern Territory
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Acacia delicatula is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is an erect to ascending shrub with clusters of linear to thread-like phyllodes, spherical heads of yellow flowers and very narrowly lance-shaped, woody pods.

Where it grows

This species of wattle is usually grows in shrubland or open savanna on rocky or stony plateaus and hilltops in the north-west of Western Australia and the northern part of the Northern Territory.

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 delicatula 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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