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Acacia hakeoides
Also called Black Wattle, Hakea Leaf Wattle, Western Black Wattle, Hakea Leaved Wattle
Acacia hakeoides is a bushy shrub or small tree from southern Australia, growing 1 to 4 m tall with golden-yellow flower spikes in winter and spring. It is a hardy wattle that suits dry, sandy, open sites.
Acacia hakeoides, known colloquially as hakea wattle, hakea-leaved wattle or western black wattle, is a species of flowering plant endemic to southern Australia. It is a bushy shrub or tree with lance-shaped to linear phyllodes, racemes of bright golden-yellow flowers and more or less leathery to leathery to hard and brittle pods. It can be found growing in sandy soils in semiarid and Eucalyptus woodland in the region.
Hakea wattle is widespread and common in open scrub, Eucalyptus woodland or mallee in western New South Wales, north-western Victoria, southern coastal areas of South Australia including the Nullarbor region, and the Coolgardie, Hampton, Mallee and Nullarbor bioregions of southern Western Australia.
The seed of "Acacia hakeoides" is edible and it has been suggested that this seed is suitable for culinary use as a flavouring agent, as a stable carbohydrate or as a coffee substitute, among others. In light of this fact, the species has been listed by one study as a medium priority species of interest for domestication for seed production purposes.
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 hakeoides 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.
