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Acacia gnidium

Acacia gnidium
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au

Acacia gnidium is a dense, spreading wattle shrub native to rugged sandstone country in central and north-central Queensland, Australia. It is grown in gardens mainly for its fragrant golden yellow flower heads and suits dry, well-drained sites.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water young plants until established, then rely mostly on rain; avoid overwatering.
Soil
Free-draining, sandy or rocky soil; tolerates poor, shallow soils.
Temperature
Tolerates warm, dry conditions; frost tolerance is limited, so protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Queensland
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Acacia gnidium is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Queensland, Australia. It is a dense, spreading glabrous shrub with narrowly linear phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers and narrowly oblong, papery pods

Where it grows

This species of wattle grows in rugged sandstone country and is found in scattered locations in Central Queensland from around Kroombit Tops National Park, Mount Pluto and Alpha station to west of Springsure and the Chesterton Range. It also occurs in north-central Queensland in the Peak Range and White Mountains.

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 gnidium 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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