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Acacia lazaridis

Acacia lazaridis
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0

Acacia lazaridis is a small, glabrous wattle shrub from north-eastern Queensland that grows in gravelly, well-drained red earth and sandstone slopes. It is a native species rarely grown in gardens, so care is best matched to its dry, open habitat.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently, letting the soil dry out between waterings; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Free-draining gravelly or sandy mix; tolerates poor, shallow soils.
Temperature
Frost-free tropical to subtropical conditions; protect below 5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
NE. Queensland
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Acacia lazaridis is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to north-eastern Queensland, Australia. It is a shrub with more or less flattened branchlets with prominent ridges, narrowly oblong, elliptic to narrowly egg-shaped phyllodes, spikes of yellow flowers and narrowly elliptic to lance-shaped or elliptic, pods.

Where it grows

This species of wattle grows in gravelly red earth or shallow sandy soil in open forest, woodland or scrub with otherAcacia and Triodia species on sandstone, granite or metamorphic rocks in the Cook and Kennedy districts, Queensland, often on the slopes of the Great Dividing Range.

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 lazaridis 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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