The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Acacia maconochieana
Salt wattle (Acacia maconochieana) is a small tree from arid north-western and central Australia, grown mainly for its drought tolerance and golden flowers. It needs full sun and very well-drained soil, and it tolerates long dry spells.
Acacia maconochieana, commonly known as mullan wattle or salt wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to arid areas of north-western Australia. It is a tree with fissured grey bark, hairy branchlets, linear phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers, and leathery pods, appearing somewhat like a string of beads.
Mullan wattle occurs around Gregory salt lake in northern Western Australia, extending east to Nongra Lake in the Tanami Desert, in the Central Kimberley, Great Sandy Desert, MacDonnell Ranges, Ord Victoria Plain and Tanami bioregions. It usually grows in low open forest, woodland or open scrubland.
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 maconochieana 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.
