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Acacia leptocarpa
North Coast Wattle (Acacia leptocarpa) is a northern Australian tree, rarely a shrub, with dark ironbark-type bark and yellow flower spikes from May to October. It grows in open forest and along watercourses, so it suits warm, seasonally wet tropical or subtropical gardens.
Acacia leptocarpa, commonly known as slender-fruited wattle, mangarr mangal, malakmalak, matngala or wagiman in Australian Aboriginal languages, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is a tree, rarely a shrub, with dark grey to almost black bark, narrowly elliptic, sickle-shaped, shortened phyllodes, spikes heads of yellow to golden yellow flowers and curved, curled or twisted pods constricted between and raised over the seeds.
This species of wattle is mostly found in open forest, occasionally in monsoon forest and rainforest margins from Carlton Hill Station in the Kimberley region of Western Australia and eastwards across the Top End of the Northern Territory including its offshore islands, to Cape York Peninsula and south to southern Central Queensland where it is found along the margins of watercourses and swampy areas growing in sandy or rocky soils occasionally around laterite in open Eucalyptus or Melaleuca woodland.
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 leptocarpa 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.
