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Acacia kettlewelliae
Buffalo wattle is a bushy shrub or tree of southeastern Australia, growing 2 to 10 m tall with bright golden yellow flower heads in spring. It grows best in full sun with well-drained soil and is mainly grown in gardens within its native range.
Acacia kettlewelliae, commonly known as buffalo wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-east of continental Australia. It is a bushy shrub or tree with narrowly oblong, narrowly elliptic or narrowly lance-shaped phyllodes, spherical heads of bright, light golden yellow flowers, and firmly papery, oblong to egg-shaped pods.
This species of wattle grows at higher altitudes in montane forest but also on lower slopes near streams, along the Great Dividing Range from around Tumut in New South Wales, south to Mount Buffalo and near Omeo in Victoria.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia kettlewelliae 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.
