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Acacia kenneallyi

Acacia kenneallyi
Photo: Royal Botanic Garden Kew, CC BY 4.0

Acacia kenneallyi is a spindly wattle tree or shrub, 2 to 7 m tall, native to the far north-west of Western Australia. It is a species of woodland plant from sandy soils over sandstone and dolomite, so it is best suited to dry, open, sunny conditions.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established, allowing the soil to dry between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty mix.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
N. Western Australia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Acacia kenneallyi is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the far north-west of Western Australia. It is an openly branched, spindly tree or shrub with narrowly elliptic to linear phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers in racemes in axils or on the ends of branches, and linear, leathery to more or less woody pods.

Where it grows

This species of wattle grows in sand over sandstone and over dolomite, usually in woodland, and is restricted to the Bonaparte Archipelago from Heywood Island and north-east to Bigge Island and the nearby mainland in the Northern Kimberley bioregion of far north-west 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 kenneallyi 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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