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Acacia longiphyllodinea

Acacia longiphyllodinea
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0

Acacia longiphyllodinea, known as yalgoo or long-leaved wattle, is a wiry shrub native to sandplains of southwest Western Australia, with stiff upright leaf-like stems and dense golden yellow flower spikes in winter and spring. It needs full sun and very good drainage, and suits dry gardens.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established and let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty mix; tolerates poor, nutrient-low soil.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates light frost once established but protect young plants below about -5 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
W. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia longiphyllodinea, commonly known as yalgoo or long-leaved wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is an open, wiry shrub, with many striated stems covered with a white powdery bloom, linear, terete phyllodes continuous with rigidly erect branchlets, very dense spikes of golden yellow flowers, and linear, flat, light brown pods.

Where it grows

Yalgoo grows on sandplains in low eucalypt woodland from near Geraldton and inland to Yalgoo and south to Bencubbin in the Avon Wheatbelt, Geraldton Sandplains and Yalgoo bioregions of south-western 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 longiphyllodinea 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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