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Acacia incrassata

Acacia incrassata
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0

Acacia incrassata is a low, spreading wattle shrub from south-west Western Australia, growing 15 to 30 cm tall and spreading by underground runners. It is grown for its golden flowers and needs full sun and very well-drained soil.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Sandy or gravelly, free-draining soil; poor soil suits it well.
Temperature
Mild conditions; tolerates light frost, protect below about -5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
WSW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia incrassata is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub or subshrub that spreads by underground runners and has prominently ribbed branchlets. Its phyllodes are inequilateral, usually triangular or Δ-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, the flowers borne in spherical heads and the pods narrowly oblong, crusty and glabrous.

Where it grows

This species of wattle occurs from around Mount Lesueur and south to Kalamunda, also from around Serpentine. A variant occurs near Watheroo. The species grows in Eucalyptus wandoo woodlands or in sand or loamy gravel in low heath, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions in the south-west of 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 incrassata 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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