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Acacia hammondii
Hammond's wattle is a shrub or small tree native to tropical northern Australia, grown mainly for its yellow flower spikes and phyllodes. It suits open, sunny sites with well-drained soil and a seasonally dry climate.
Acacia hammondii, also known as Hammond's wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is a shrub or tree with linear or very narrowly elliptic phyllodes, spikes of yellow flowers and papery, shiny, narrowly oblong pods.
Hammond's wattle grows in tropical parts of northern Australia in Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland between 13º30'S and 20ºS. It is found as far west as the Kimberley region of Western Australia and is fairly common in coastal and subcoastal areas around the lower part of the Gulf of Carpentaria including the offshore islands. It is far less common in western inland parts of the Northern Territory and eastern parts of Queensland. It grows well in sand, sandy loam, clay and stony lateritic soils in open Eucalyptus woodland communities, often with grassy understorey.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia hammondii 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.
