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Acacia jasperensis

Acacia jasperensis
Photo: Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0

Acacia jasperensis is a slender wattle shrub or small tree native to sandstone hills in northern Australia, growing up to about 6 m. It is not a common garden plant and is mainly grown in native or dryland plantings, where it needs full sun and good drainage.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water young plants until established, then rely mainly on seasonal rain; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or gravelly soil, as found on its sandstone habitat.
Temperature
Suited to warm, seasonally dry tropical conditions; protect from frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
NE. Western Australia to N. Northern Territory
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Acacia jasperensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the north of Australia. It is an erect, slender shrub or tree with erect, thread-like phyllodes, spherical heads of yellow flowers and flat, papery pods rounded over the seeds.

Where it grows

This species of wattle grows on sandstone hills from the Keep River National Park and the Mount Brockman area in Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory to just east of Kununurra in 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 jasperensis 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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