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Acacia infecunda, known as famine wattle, is a small erect shrub native to a restricted area of East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. It is grown mainly as a specialist native plant and grows best in well-drained, rocky, open conditions.
Acacia infecunda, also known as famine wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of East Gippsland in Victoria, Australia. It is an erect shrub that readily forms suckers, and has linear, straight phyllodes and spherical heads of golden yellow flowers.
Famine wattle has a limited distribution in north-western Victoria to the south of Wulgulmerang around Splitters Creek on high rocky ground in dry open forest where it grows in rocky soils. Only a single small population of fragmented stands growing in a limited area on the Wombargo Range in the headwaters of the Little River.
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 infecunda 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.
