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Acacia georginae
Georgina gidgee is a foul-smelling, spreading tree of arid Central Australia that typically reaches 3 to 8 m. It is a drought-tolerant native, and its foliage contains fluoroacetic acid that is highly poisonous to livestock.
Acacia georginae, commonly known as Georgina gidgee, Georgina gidyea or poison gidyea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to arid areas of Central Australia. It is a foul-smelling, gnarled or spreading tree with a dense crown, narrowly elliptic phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers and curved to coiled, papery pods.
Acacia georginae is closely related to A. cambagei, but unlike that species, its foliage contains fluoroacetic acid that is extremely poisonous to livestock. The foul smelling odour of the phyllodes that is especially evident in wet weather, is also a characteristic of A. cambagei and A. pachcarpa.
Georgina gidgee occurs in south-eastern Northern Territory, extending into the Georgina River basin in Queensland and just into the north of South Australia. It grows on plains and along watercourses in clay and loam and is the dominant species in low woodland.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia georginae 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.
