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Acacia latipes

Acacia latipes
Photo: Peter Crowcroft, CC BY 4.0

Acacia latipes is a diffuse to dense shrub from south-west Western Australia, growing 0.3 to 2 m tall with golden yellow flower heads from June to October. It is a hardy, drought-tolerant wattle best suited to dry, well-drained sandy or gravelly soils in full sun.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gravelly soil; tolerates laterite and limestone.
Temperature
Tolerates a wide range of temperatures typical of a Mediterranean-type climate; protect from frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
W. & SW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia latipes is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub, with sessile, narrowly elliptic, linear or tapered phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers and linear, leathery pods raised over the seeds.

Where it grows

Acacia latipes grows in sand, sandy loam, granite, laterite or limestone on sandplains, hills and flats.

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 latipes 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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