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Acacia delphina

Acacia delphina
Photo: Gderrin, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
S. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia delphina is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south of Western Australia. It is a shrub with grey bark, more or less crescent-shaped phyllodes with a conspicuous triangular spur on the upper edge, oblong to shortly cylindrical spikes of pale yellow or golden yellow flowers and straight or slightly curved, firmly papery pods, more or less resembling a string of beads.

Where it grows

This species of wattle usually grows on flats in sand or loam in undulating plains, low rises near salt flats in low, open woodland or tall shrubland in near-coastal areas between the Pallinup River and Israelite Bay in the Esperance Plains and Mallee bioregions of southern Western Australia.

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 delphina by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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