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Acacia glaucocaesia

Acacia glaucocaesia
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0

Acacia glaucocaesia is a wattle shrub or small tree native to the Pilbara region of north-west Western Australia, where it grows on floodplains. It is a hardy, drought-tolerant plant suited to dry, warm climates.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently, letting the soil dry out between waterings; established plants need little irrigation.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or loamy soil; tolerates clay.
Temperature
Warm conditions suited to seasonally dry tropical climates; protect from frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
NW. Western Australia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Acacia glaucicaesia is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the north-west of Western Australia. It is a glabrous shrub or tree with branchlets covered with a white, powdery bloom, elliptic to narrowly elliptic or lance-shaped phyllodes, spherical heads of pale yellow flowers and narrowly oblong, papery pods covered with a powdery bloom.

Where it grows

This species of wattle is known only from a few scattered localities between the western part of the Pilbara regions of Western Australia, commonly forming almost pure stands on floodplains in sandy, clay or loamy soils.

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 glaucicaesia 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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