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Acacia hubbardiana
Yellow prickly Moses is a spreading shrub native to coastal south-eastern Queensland, valued for its spherical heads of creamy-yellow flowers. It suits sunny spots with well-drained or moist sandy soil.
Acacia hubbardiana, commonly known as yellow prickly Moses or prickly Moses, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Queensland, Australia. It is a spreading shrub with dimidiate, sharply-pointed, glabrous phyllodes, spherical heads of creamy-yellow flowers and thinly leathery, oblong to narrowly oblong pods.
Yellow prickly Moses grows along coastal parts of south eastern Queensland from near Bundaberg in the north to Brisbane in the south, where it is found on coastal plains, swamps and lowlands in poorly drained, sandy soils in open woodland or heath.
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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.
