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Acacia inophloia

Acacia inophloia
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0

Acacia inophloia, known as fibre-barked wattle, is a small shrub or tree from south-west Western Australia, grown mainly as a native garden or revegetation plant. It needs full sun and excellent drainage in sandy or gravelly soil.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water young plants until established, then water sparingly and allow the soil to dry between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gravelly loam, slightly acidic to neutral.
Temperature
Tolerates roughly 5–35 °C; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia inophloia, commonly known as fibre-barked wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub or tree with Minni ritchi bark, thread-like phyllodes, oblong to cylindrical heads of golden yellow flowers and thinly leathery, linear pods slightly raised over the seeds.

Where it grows

Fibre-barked wattle grows in gravelly, sandy and loamy granitic soils and is restricted to areas north and east of Kondinin, with a single collection near Moora in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Mallee and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions in the inland of south-western 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 inophloia 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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