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Acacia lacertensis

Acacia lacertensis
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0

Acacia lacertensis is a slender wattle shrub or small tree, up to about 8 m, native to northern Northern Territory, Australia, growing on sandy watercourse banks. It is grown mainly as a garden or revegetation plant in warm, seasonally dry climates.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water young plants regularly until established, then allow the soil to dry between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or loamy soil.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect from frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
N. Northern Territory
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Acacia lacertensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the north of the Northern Territory, Australia. It is a slender shrub or tree, with straight or shallowly s-shaped, sometimes slightly down-curved phyllodes, narrowed at both ends, spikes of golden yellow flowers and linear, more or less straight, glabrous pods.

Where it grows

This species of wattle grows on the sandy banks of watercourses on the East Alligator River and its tributaries on the western and northern margins of the west Arnhemland sandstone plateau.

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 lacertensis 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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