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Acacia deltoidea

Acacia deltoidea
Photo: Rod Lowther, CC BY 4.0

Acacia deltoidea is a wattle shrub from the Kimberley region of northern Western Australia, growing 1.5 to 3 m tall with small leathery phyllodes and golden yellow flower heads. It suits warm, dry, sunny sites with sandy, well-drained soil.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently, letting the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Sandy, well-drained soil or a gritty mix.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
N. Western Australia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Acacia deltoidea is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the north of Western Australia. It is a shrub with hairy branchlets, overlapping wedge-shaped, elliptic, egg-shaped or Δ-shaped phyllodes, spherical heads of dark golden yellow flowers and oblong, thinly leathery pods.

Where it grows

This species of wattle is native to an area in the West Kimberley region of northern Western Australia from along the Bonaparte Archipelago and Napier Broome Bay areas and inland to Kimberley Downs Station, Beverley Springs Station and Phillips Range in the east. It is usually found growing in sandy soils over and around sandstone and quartzite.

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 deltoidea 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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