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Acacia microbotrya
Also called Manna Wattle
Acacia microbotrya, commonly known as manna wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a sturdy shrub or tree with up to three main trunks, a bushy crown, narrowly elliptic to lance-shaped phyllodes, spherical heads of showy cream to pale yellow or bright lemon yellow flowers, and thinly leathery pods somewhat resembling a string of beads. The Noongar peoples know the tree as badjong, galyang, koonert or menna.
The plant is commercially available in seed form or as tubestock. It is commonly used in native gardens as in land rehabilitation an ornamental, as a windbreak, for shelter and for sandalwood. It is fast growing is salt tolerant and will survive in waterlogged areas.
Manna wattle grows in a range of habitats, often on clay-loam or sandy loam flats and often near watercourses, from near Dandaragan to near Merredin and south to near Kojonup and Ravensthorpe in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee and Swan Coastal Plain bioregions of south-western Western Australia. It is both native and naturalised in its range.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia microbotrya by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
