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Acacia lentiginea

Acacia lentiginea is a wild Australian wattle shrub from the far north of Western Australia, growing between sandstone boulders near creeks. It is rarely cultivated, so care advice below is general for acacias of this type.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water moderately while establishing, then allow the soil to dry between waterings; it tolerates dry spells.
Soil
Well-drained sandy or gritty soil; tolerates poor, rocky soils.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
N. Western Australia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Acacia lentiginea is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the far north of Western Australia. It is an erect, spreading, glabrous, resinous shrub with narrowly elliptic phyllodes and spikes of pale yellow to cream-coloured flowers.

Where it grows

This species of wattle grows between sandstone boulders near a creek on a sandstone pavement in the Prince Regent River area in the Northern Kimberley bioregion of northern Western Australia.

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 lentiginea 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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