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Acacia flavescens
Acacia flavescens, also known as red wattle or yellow wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Queensland, Australia. It is a tree with rough, furrowed bark, branchlets covered with star-shaped hairs, narrowly elliptic to lance-shaped phyllodes, spherical heads of cream-coloured flowers and flat, thinly leathery pods.
The species is sold commercially in seed form. Seeds need to be pre-treated by scarifying or soaking in hot water prior to planting.
The tree grows well in a sunny location in a wide range of soils including poor soils. It is fast growing and can shoot from root suckers making it a possible weed problem. It has a symbiotic relationship with nitrogen fixing bacteria found on the root nodules.
This species of wattle is widespread, mainly in near-coastal areas of eastern Queensland from Cape York Peninsula and south to near Brisbane, where it grows in sand in eucalypt forest and woodland, sometimes along the margins of monsoon forest and rainforest, at altitudes ranging from sea level to 1,000 metres (3,281 ft).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia flavescens by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
