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Acacia glutinosissima

Acacia glutinosissima
Photo: Gderrin, CC BY-SA 4.0

Acacia glutinosissima is a sticky, open, spindly wattle shrub from the Avon Wheatbelt of south-western Western Australia, growing 1.8 to 3 m tall with golden yellow flower balls in July to September. It is a native species grown mainly by specialist collectors and native plant gardens, and it needs full sun and very good drainage.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently once established; let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy loam or gravelly soil, neutral to slightly acidic; avoid heavy clay and waterlogging.
Temperature
10–35 °C; tolerates light frost but protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
WSW. Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Acacia glutinosissima is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a very spindly, sticky, sparingly branched, open shrub with roughened branchlets where phyllodes have fallen, ascending to erect linear phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers and linear, crusty to leathery pods.

Where it grows

This species of wattle grows in laterite or in gravelly sand or loam, often in open scrub in the Latham-Wubin area, and from Kununoppin east to Westonia and south to Bruce Rock, in the Avon Wheatbelt bioregion of south-western Western Australia.

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 glutinosissima 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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