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Acacia leioderma
Porongurup Wattle (Acacia leioderma) is a small shrub from south-west Western Australia, growing 0.5 to 2 m tall with golden yellow globular flower heads. It is grown in gardens with moist, well-drained conditions and full sun.
Acacia leioderma is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the extreme south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with glabrous, ribbed branchlets, bipinnate leaves, up to three spherical heads of light golden yellow flowers and glabrous pods.
This species of wattle grows near watercourses and swamps, and on granite outcrops in sandy loam and on laterite, mostly in coastal heath, scrub and shrubland from the Mount Barker - Albany area and east to Fitzgerald River National Park, in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia leioderma 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.
