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Acacia drepanophylla

Acacia drepanophylla
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0

Acacia drepanophylla is a small tree from the far west of Western Australia, found in dry scrub on shallow clay or limestone soils. It is rarely grown outside its native region, and its care is best guided by its arid habitat.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out between waterings once established.
Soil
Well-drained sandy loam or gritty mix; tolerates alkaline, limestone-influenced soil.
Temperature
15–35 °C; tolerates heat, protect from hard frost below about -5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
W. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia drepanophylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the far west of Western Australia. It is a tree with fibrous bark and glabrous branchlets, widely spreading linear, sickle-shaped, glabrous phyllodes spikes of pale yellow flowers, and linear, firmly papery to thinly leathery pods.

Where it grows

This species of wattle is common throughout its range, and is sometimes dominant. It grows in shallow red clay or loam over limestone in Acacia scrub and shrubland and is restricted to the Shark Bay area between Yaringa Station and south to Wannoo in the Carnarvon, and Yalgoo bioregions in the far west of Western Australia.

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 drepanophylla 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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