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Acacia macraneura, known as big pod mulga, is a spreading, multi-stemmed desert shrub native to arid Western Australia and nearby South Australia. It grows on clay or loam soils, often on floodplains, and is best grown with sharp drainage and little water.
Acacia macraneura, commonly known as big pod mulga or big mac mulga, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to arid areas of Western Australia. It is a spreading, multi-stemmed shrub, sometimes an inverted cone-shape shrub, with stems and branches somewhat crooked, curved to s-shaped or winding phyllodes, spikes of yellow flowers, and oblong to narrowly oblong, thinly leathery pods slightly to obviously rounded over the seeds.
Big pod mulga grows in clay or loam associated with calcrete, often on floodplains or in shallow drainage systems in mulga with a ground cover, including grasses. It is confined to the Carnarvon, Gascoyne, Great Sandy Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Murchison and Pilbara bioregions of Western Australia. It has a scattered distribution from around Mount Magnet to near Leonora and the Rudall River catchment. There is also a population on Mount Agnes in South Australia, near the border with Western Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia macraneura 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.
