The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Acacia dictyophleba
Acacia dictyophleba, also known as the sandhill wattle, waxy wattle, feather veined wattle, and spear tree, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Australia. It is a glabrous, resinous shrub with lance-shaped phyllodes, spherical or oblong heads of golden yellow flowers and narrowly oblong, firmly leathery pods. The Nyangumarta peoples know the plant as langkur or lungkun; the Thalanyji know it as jabandi; and the Pintupi know it as mulyati.
Sandhill wattle is native to the desert areas of inland Australia, southern part of the Northern Territory, north-eastern South Australia and in southwest Queensland and Mid West regions of Western Australia. It is quite common throughout the Simpson Desert. It is found in a range of soil types including stony loam, sandy loam or clay-loam. The shrub is often part of in tall open shrubland or open low woodland communities containing various Acacias and Eucalyptus species as well as spinifex and grassland communities. Sometimes small dense regrowth stands following fire will form.
The plant, also known by the name spear tree, is used to make spears and digging sticks by the Aboriginal people of the Little Sandy Desert.
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 dictyophleba 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.
