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Acacia kimberleyensis

Acacia kimberleyensis
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0

Acacia kimberleyensis is a small erect wattle shrub, up to about 1.5 m tall, endemic to the Kimberley region of northern Western Australia. It is a little-known species, mainly of interest to botanists and native plant collectors rather than a common garden plant.

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

About

Acacia kimberleyensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the Kimberley region of northern Western Australia. It is a shrub with linear phyllodes, spikes of yellow flowers and thinly crust-like, narrowly linear pods.

Where it grows

This species of wattle is only known from the Packhorse Range and on Mt. Agnes, about 80 km (50 mi) to the north in the western part of the Kimberley region. The type specimens were collected in an area dominated by Eucalyptus miniata woodland over spinifex on sandstone.

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 kimberleyensis 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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