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Acacia genistifolia
Also called Spreading Wattle
Acacia genistifolia, early or spreading wattle, is an open, straggly native shrub of south-eastern Australia that bears spherical clusters of yellow flowers in winter and spring. It is grown in gardens for its flowers and is tolerant of a range of soils.
Acacia genistifolia commonly known as spreading wattle or early wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is an open, erect, straggly or spreading shrub with sessile, more or less rigid, sharply pointed phyllodes, spherical heads of cream-coloured to rich lemon yellow flowers, and linear, thinly leathery pods raised over the seeds.
Spreading wattle grows in a range of soil types in sclerophyll forest or heathland south from Bathurst and west to Grenfell and Griffith in south-eastern New South Wales. It is widespread in Victoria, apart from the mallee and higher parts of the Great Dividing Range. The species is abundant in northern and eastern Tasmania, including on Flinders and Bruny Islands but it is only found north of Mintaro in South Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia genistifolia 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.
