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Acacia fodinalis

Acacia fodinalis
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0

Acacia fodinalis is a wattle tree from central eastern Queensland, Australia, growing 4 to 10 m tall with sickle-shaped phyllodes and golden yellow flower spikes from June to September. It is a native Australian tree grown mainly in gardens with dry, sunny conditions.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply when young, then allow the soil to dry between waterings; established trees tolerate dry spells.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or loamy soil; tolerates poor soils.
Temperature
15–35 °C; tolerates light frost but protect young plants below -3 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Queensland
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Acacia fodinalis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to central eastern Queensland, Australia. It is a tree with glabrous, reddish branchlets, mostly glabrous, sickle-shaped phyllodes, spikes of golden yellow flowers and linear pods prominently raised over the seeds.

Where it grows

This species of wattle is endemic to central eastern Queensland where it is found in the upper portion on the Isaac River watershed and adjacent parts of the Belyando River catchment where it usually grows on floodplains and riverbanks growing in sandy soils in Eucalyptus woodland, usually with Eucalyptus crebra.

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 fodinalis 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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