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Acacia linifolia
Acacia linifolia, white wattle or flax-leaved wattle, is a native Australian shrub in the pea family, endemic to eastern New South Wales, usually growing 1.5 to 4 m tall. It is grown for its abundant creamy white flowers and does best in a sunny spot with well-drained, lean soil.
Acacia linifolia, commonly known as white wattle, or flax-leaved wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to New South Wales, Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub with smooth or finely fissured bark, arching branches, more or less spreading linear, mostly glabrous phyllodes, spherical heads of creamy white to pale yellow flowers, and firmly papery to thinly leathery pods.
White wattle is found in eastern New South Wales from around the Hunter Valley in the north to near Hill Top and Narooma, and is quite common around Sydney. It is usually found in dry sclerophyll forest, heathland or open woodland where it grows in skeletal sandy soils over or around sandstone, or in clay soils over or around shale.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia linifolia 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.
