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Acacia meiantha
Acacia meiantha is a small wattle shrub from eastern New South Wales, Australia, growing to about 2 m with yellow pompom flowers in winter and spring. It is a species, not a genus, and is seldom cultivated, so care advice below is general for wattles of its type.
Acacia meiantha, commonly known as barradam-bang wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of New South Wales, Australia. It is an erect, spreading or straggling shrub with smooth bark, angled, hairy branchlets, crowded linear phyllodes, spherical heads of yellow flowers, and narrowly oblong, firmly papery pods.
Barradam-bang wattle has only been recorded in three disjunct locations in New South Wales within 100 km (62 mi) of each another; in the Mullions Range north or Orange, near Clarence in the Blue Mountains east of Lithgow and Carcalgong–Aarons Pass area south of Mudgee. It grows in eucalypt woodland and open forest or shrub-dominated vegetation, often in disturbed areas in sandy or clayey soils.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia meiantha 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.
