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Acacia filifolia is a wispy, spindly wattle shrub or small tree from south-west Western Australia, grown mainly for its yellow flowers and unusual thin phyllodes. It needs full sun and very well-drained, sandy soil.
Acacia filifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a wispy, spindly, single-stemmed shrub or tree with straight to winding branchlets, sessile, ascending phyllodes, more or less spherical to oblong heads of yellow flowers and linear, firmly papery pods.
This species of wattle grows in sand over laterite, mostly in shrubland in scattered populations from near Coorow and east through Wongan Hills to near Burracoppin and Southern Cross in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie and Geraldton Sandplains bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia filifolia 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.
