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Acacia estrophiolata
Also called Southern Ironwood
Ironwood Wattle (Acacia estrophiolata) is a graceful, glabrous tree from the arid interior of Central Australia, grown mainly for its shade and form in dry, sandy conditions. It is a species, not a genus, and it suits dry-climate or xeriscape gardens.
Acacia estrophiolata, commonly known as ironwood, southern ironwood, desert ironwood or utjanypa, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Central Australia. It is a graceful, glabrous tree with linear to very narrowly elliptic phyllodes, spherical heads of cream-coloured to pale yellow flowers, and firmly papery, flat pods.
This species of wattle commonly grows on sandy alluvial flats as scattered trees, but also in tall open shrubland and open woodland. It is found in the Central Ranges, Finke, Great Victoria Desert and Stony Plains bioregions of South Australia, southern parts of the Northern Territory and the Central Ranges, Gascoyne, Great Sandy Desert and Tanami bioregions of Western Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia estrophiolata 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.
