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Acacia fuscaneura
Sooty wattle is a small Australian tree or shrub native to the arid inland of Western Australia, grown mainly for its golden flowers and dark bark in dry, sunny gardens. It needs full sun, excellent drainage and very little water once established.
Acacia fuscaneura, commonly known as sooty wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the inland of Western Australia. It is an inverted cone-shaped shrub with charcoal grey to blackish bark, densely hairy branchlets, narrowly linear phyllodes, spikes of golden yellow flowers and oblong to narrowly oblong, thinly leathery pods, slightly to moderately constricted between the seeds.
Sooty wattle ranges from the Pilbara region, south to Paynes Find and east to near Wiluna and Laverton with an outlier near Shark Bay. It grows in sand, loam or clay on stony plains in mulga or mixed Acacia shrubland in the Carnarvon, Gascoyne, Great Victoria Desert, Murchison, Pilbara and Yalgoo bioregions of inland Western Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia fuscaneura 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.
