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Forrest's wattle is a small, erect shrub from south-west Western Australia, grown mainly in dry, well-drained gardens. It needs full sun and very good drainage, and it is not commonly grown as a houseplant.
Acacia forrestiana, commonly known as Forrest's wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with ascending to erect, triangular phyllodes with the narrower end towards the base, spherical heads of pale yellow flowers and flat, oblong, leathery pods.
This species of wattle is restricted to the Hill River district where it often grows in rocky or lateritic clay on the slopes of gullies, on hills or breakaways in heath or low woodland in the Geraldton Sandplains and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia between Coorow and Dandaragan. It often grows with an overstorey of Eucalyptus wandoo and Eucalyptus calophylla with an understorey including Hakea lissocarpha and other species of Grevillea, Acacia, Isopogon, Calothamnus and Melaleuca.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia forrestiana 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.
