Acacia kydrensis, known as Kydra wattle, is a multi-stemmed shrub from a small area of south-eastern New South Wales, Australia, grown mainly for its yellow flower heads. It is a species, not a genus, and it is rarely cultivated, so growing advice is drawn from general wattle care.
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water young plants regularly until established, then allow the soil to dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining, well-drained soil; tolerates poor or sandy soils.
Temperature
Suited to a temperate to subtropical climate; tolerates light frost but protect young plants below about -5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical
About
Acacia kydrensis, commonly known as Kydra wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a small area in the south of New South Wales, Australia. It is a shrub with many stems, glabrous, reddish brown branchlets, lance-shaped to narrowly lance-shaped phyllodes with the narrower end towards the base, spherical heads of yellow flowers and linear to narrowly oblong, firmly leathery, glabrous pods.
Where it grows
Kydra wattle grows in forest and shrubland on a variety of substrates, mainly in the Kydra reef area south-east of Cooma, but also in Deua and Wadbilliga National Parks of south-eastern New South Wales.
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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.