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Warrumbungle Range Wattle

Acacia forsythii

Acacia forsythii is a bushy wattle shrub, about 2 m tall, endemic to the Warrumbungle Range in New South Wales, Australia, and is rarely grown outside its native habitat. It is a species with a very restricted natural range, so cultivation details are limited.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; allow soil to dry between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or gritty soil.
Temperature
Tolerates cool to warm temperate conditions; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
EC. New South Wales (Warrumbungle Range)
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia forsythii, commonly known as Warrumbungle Range wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of New South Wales, Australia. It is a bushy shrub with glabrous, red-brown branchlets, linear phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers and narrowly oblong, leathery pods.

Where it grows

Warrumbungle Range wattle is restricted to the Warrumbungle National Park in New South Wales, where it grows in sandy soils in open woodland in sheltered sites, mainly at higher altitudes.

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 forsythii 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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