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Acacia desmondii, known as Des Nelson wattle, is a shrubby tree from arid central Australia, grown mainly in dry-climate and native gardens. It needs full sun, excellent drainage and little water once established.
Acacia desmondii, commonly known as Des Nelson wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the Northern Territory in Australia. It is a shrubby tree with minni ritchi bark, linear flattened, glabrous phyllodes, spikes of light golden yellow flowers and oblong to elliptic, firmly papery and brittle pods.
Acacia desmondii is endemic to a small area among the plains and hills of the Rodinga Range, Train Hills and Pillar Range on Allambi Station and Todd River Station in the Finke, MacDonnell Ranges and Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields bioregions in the south of the Northern Territory where it often grows along stony watercourses and in dry rocky gullies at the foot of the ranges and on rocky sandstone cliffs.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia desmondii 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.
