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Acacia donaldsonii

Acacia donaldsonii
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0

Acacia donaldsonii, known as Binneringie wattle, is a shrub or gnarled tree from the arid inland of Western Australia, grown mainly as an ornamental or in dryland revegetation. It needs full sun, very well drained soil and very little water once established.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out fully between waterings; it is adapted to a desert climate with scant rainfall.
Soil
Sandy or gravelly, free-draining soil; tolerates saline and clay-loam soils.
Temperature
Tolerates hot, dry desert conditions; protect from frost, roughly below 0 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
C. & S. Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Acacia donaldsonii, commonly known as Binneringie wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the inland areas of Western Australia. It is a shrub or gnarled tree with hairy, resinous branchlets, ascending to erect, terete phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers and leathery, linear pods resembling a string of beads.

Where it grows

Binneringie wattle occurs on pastoral stations from Lake Yindarlgooda and south to Norseman and near Carlisle Lakes in the Coolgardie,Great Victoria Desert, Murchison and Nullarbor bioregions of southern Western Australia, where it grows in sandy, clayey and gravelly loam on sandplains, salty, stony plains and near salt lakes with species of Atriplex and Maireana.

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 donaldsonii 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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