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Panjang

Acacia lasiocarpa

Panjang
Photo: JarrahTree, CC BY 2.5 au

Acacia lasiocarpa, known as dune Moses or panjang, is a small spiny wattle shrub from south-west Western Australia with spherical heads of golden yellow flowers. This entry covers the species; it is grown outdoors in dry, sunny, well-drained sites.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; allow soil to dry out between waterings.
Soil
Sandy or gravelly, free-draining soil; tolerates poor, nutrient-low soils.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates light frost but protect from hard freezes.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
W. & SW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia lasiocarpa, commonly known as dune Moses and known by the Noongar peoples as panjang or pajang, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub, often with spiny branchlets, with pinnatipartite leaves, usually with spherical heads of golden yellow flowers and flat or wavy pods.

Where it grows

This species of wattle in widespread in the south-west of Western Australia, from Kalbarri to near Esperance.

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 lasiocarpa 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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