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Acacia lamprocarpa
Western salwood is a tree native to northern Australia, growing 4 to 15 m tall with papery bark and flat, leaf-like phyllodes. It is grown as an ornamental or for revegetation in warm, seasonally dry climates, and it needs full sun and well-drained sandy soil.
Acacia lamprocarpa, commonly known as western salwood, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is a tree with thick, papery, flaky bark, yellow-brown stems, slender, often pendulous branchlets, phyllodes with one edge convex and the other more or less straight, spikes of cream-coloured to pale yellow flowers and oblong to narrowly oblong, flat or twisted, woody, resinous, glabrous pods.
Western salwood is found across northern Australia in Western Australia, the Northern Territory and the Gulf Country of north east Queensland where it grows in a range of habitats, including the margins of watercourses, coastal sand dunes, sandy plain and on sandstone plateau.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia lamprocarpa 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.
