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Acacia haematites

Acacia haematites, known as Koolyanobbing ironstone wattle, is a small diffuse shrub from one range in inland Western Australia. It grows in open shrubland on iron-rich rock, and is rarely grown outside its native area.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly, letting the soil dry out between waterings, and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Fast-draining, gritty or sandy mix, low in nutrients.
Temperature
Suited to warm, dry conditions; protect from frost.
Native range
Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia haematites, also known as Koolyanobbing ironstone wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is only known from a single range in inland Western Australia. It is a diffuse shrub with narrowly oblong to narrowly lance-shaped phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers and linear, strongly curved to coiled or twisted pods.

Where it grows

Koolyanobbing ironstone wattle is only known from a single range near Koolyanobbing where it grows below massive outcrops of banded iron formation in open shrubland in the Coolgardie bioregion of inland 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 haematites 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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