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Acacia duriuscula

Acacia duriuscula
Photo: G. Flowers, CC BY 3.0

Acacia duriuscula is a resinous wattle shrub or small tree from the dry interior of south-western Western Australia, growing in sandy soils and near granite outcrops. It is grown mainly for its golden yellow flower heads and suits sunny, free-draining sites.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water young plants until established, then rely mostly on rain; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or gritty soil.
Temperature
Tolerates hot, dry conditions; protect from frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Acacia duriuscula is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub or tree with glabrous branchlets, leathery, linear phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers, and linear, firmly papery pods slightly curved and slightly raised over the seeds.

Where it grows

This species of wattle grows in sand on plains and near granite outcrops in scattered locations from near Mullewa and Paynes Find to Tammin and Cardunia Rocks east of Coolgardie, and near Bromus south of Norseman, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Great Victoria Desert, Murchison and Yalgoo bioregions of south-western 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 duriuscula 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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