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Acacia maitlandii
Maitland's wattle is an arid-zone Australian shrub, 0.7 to 3 m tall, with a straggly habit, phyllodes instead of true leaves, and golden yellow ball-shaped flower heads. It suits hot, dry sites with sandy or stony soil and needs very little water once established.
Acacia maitlandii, commonly known as Maitland's wattle, spiky wattle, spiny-leaved wattle, garrga (by the Ngarluma and Yindjibarndi people) or as jumbingjar (by the Kurrama people) is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to arid regions of Australia. It is an erect, openly branched shrub, with glabrous red to brown, resinous branchlets, narrowly elliptic to oblong phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers, and firmly papery pods rounded over and slightly constricted between the seeds.
Maitland's wattle occurs in all mainland states of Australia, except Victoria, and is not considered to be threatened with extinction. The favoured soil type is red sand, or stony ground on sandy or stony plains, and on hills.
The species is used to make boomerangs and spearthrowers, and the gum produced is edible. The tree is called garrga in the languages of the Yindjibarndi and Ngarluma people.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia maitlandii 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.
