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Acacia eremaea

Acacia eremaea
Photo: Gderrin, CC BY-SA 4.0

Acacia eremaea is a dense wattle shrub or small tree native to the arid wheatbelt of Western Australia, growing on clay loam flats near salt lakes. It is a drought-tolerant plant best suited to hot, dry, free-draining conditions.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently, letting the soil dry out between waterings; established plants need little or no extra water.
Soil
Well-drained soil, sandy or loamy; tolerates clay loam and mildly saline conditions.
Temperature
10–35 °C; protect from frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
W. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia eremaea is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the west of Western Australia. It is a dense shrub or tree with ribbed, terete branchlets, erect, narrowly elliptic to elliptic phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers, and linear, leathery pods strongly raised over the seeds.

Where it grows

This species of wattle grows on clay loam flats, often near salt lakes in tall shrubland and low woodland from around Boolardy Station and Cue towards Wongan Hills, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Murchison and Yalgoo bioregions in the 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 eremaea 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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