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Acacia falcata
Burra is a fast-growing, slender Australian shrub or small tree, usually 2 to 5 m tall, grown for its sickle-shaped grey-green phyllodes and creamy flower heads. It suits sunny, well-drained sites and tolerates poor, stony soils.
Acacia falcata, commonly known as burra, sickle-shaped acacia, sally, hickory wattle or silver-leaved wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect, slender shrub or tree with red-brown, glabrous branchlets, sickle-shaped phyllodes, spherical heads of creamy white flowers and linear, leathery pods.
Burra is found in coastal regions and on the eastern slopes of the Great Dividing Range from Bundaberg, Herberton and Ingham in Queensland and south through eastern New South Wales to Narooma. It is common in the understorey of Eucalyptus communities, often in shallow, stony soil. It grows predominantly on shale soils in open forest, and is associated with such trees as Eucalyptus paniculata, E. longifolia and E. tereticornis.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia falcata 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.
