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Acacia drepanocarpa is a sticky, shrubby wattle from northern Australia, growing 0.9 to 4 m tall in sandy, laterite or gravelly soils. It is a species of arid and semi-arid tropical bush and is rarely grown in gardens, so care notes are general guidance for the genus.
Acacia drepanocarpa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the northern Australia. It is a sticky shrub with yellowish, ridged branchlets, linear to narrowly elliptic phyllodes, spikes of pale to bright yellow flowers and linear, leathery to thinly woody pods.
Acacia drepanocarpa subsp. drepanocarpa occurs in tropical Australia between Broome and Port Hedland in Western Australia, in the Barkly region of the Northern Territory and in northern Queensland, where it grows on sandplains and grassland in sand and laterite.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia drepanocarpa 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.
