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Acacia jamesiana

Acacia jamesiana
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0

Acacia jamesiana is a bushy wattle shrub or small tree from inland Western Australia, growing 2 to 6 m tall with golden yellow flower heads. It suits dry, sandy sites and needs full sun and very good drainage.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply when the soil is fully dry; very drought tolerant once established.
Soil
Sandy, free-draining soil; tolerates poor, alkaline soils.
Temperature
15–35 °C; protect from frost below about -5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
C. & WC. Western Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Acacia jamesiana is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to inland areas of Western Australia. It is a bushy shrub or tree with linear to rhombic phyllodes with a coarsely pointed tip, oblong to short-cylindrical heads of golden yellow flowers and linear, ribbed, straight, cartilaginous to more or less woody pods.

Where it grows

This species of wattle grows on sand dunes and plains, mostly in tall open shrubland in scattered places between Yalgoo, the Carnarvon Range and Leinster with outliers in the Gibson and Great Victoria Deserts in the Central Ranges, Coolgardie, Gascoyne, Gibson Desert, Great Victoria Desert, Little Sandy Desert Murchison and Yalgoo bioregions of inland 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 jamesiana 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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