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Acacia farinosa
Mealy wattle (Acacia farinosa) is a rounded, native Australian shrub of 1 to 2 m with golden yellow flower balls in winter and spring. It is tough and drought tolerant, and needs full sun and very well drained soil.
Acacia farinosa, commonly known as mealy wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a rounded shrub with terete, glabrous branchlets, oblanceolate to linear phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers and linear, curved and twisted, crusty pods.
Mealy wattle mostly grows in sand or loam in shrubland and woodland, often with lerp mallee (Eucalyptus incrassata), in the Eyre and Yorke Peninsulas, on Kangaroo Island and south-eastern South Australia, and extending to western Victoria between Edenhope and Swan Hill.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia farinosa 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.
