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Acacia filipes

Acacia filipes is a spreading wattle shrub from the Northern Territory of Australia, growing about 1 m tall and 2 m wide, found on sandstone escarpments. It is a wild species seldom grown in gardens, so care advice is limited.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established, since it grows on dry sandstone escarpments.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or gritty soil.
Temperature
Tolerates warm tropical conditions; protect from frost.
Native range
N. Northern Territory
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Acacia filipes is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the Northern Territory of Australia. It is a spreading shrub with smooth stems, slender ribbed branchlets, glabrous, terete phyllodes, spikes of yellow flowers and flat, linear pods.

Where it grows

This species of wattle is native to a near Deaf Adder Gorge in Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory where it grows on top of sandstone escarpments.

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 filipes 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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