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Acacia julifera

Acacia julifera
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0

Acacia julifera is a tree or shrub native to coastal and near-coastal Queensland, Australia, grown mainly in its native region and sometimes in dry-climate gardens. It is best suited to well-drained, sandy soils in full sun.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water young plants regularly until established, then water sparingly and let the soil dry between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or stony soil; tolerates poor soils.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect from frost, which it is not adapted to.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Queensland
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Acacia julifera is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Queensland, Australia. It is a tree or shrub with elliptic or egg-shaped juvenile phyllodes, elliptic or lance-shaped, often sickle-shaped mature phyllodes, spikes of golden yellow flowers and terete pods.

Where it grows

Acacia julifera occurs from the south-east Gulf of Carpentaria through coastal and near-coastal regions of Queensland. There are possible doubtful records from the north coast of New South Wales.

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 julifera 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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