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Acacia minutifolia, the small-leaved flying-saucer bush, is a low, spreading, resinous shrub from arid inland Australia, grown mainly for its native and xeriscape value rather than as a common garden plant. It needs full sun, very good drainage and little water once established.
Acacia minutifolia, commonly known as the small-leaved flying-saucer bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, and is endemic to inland Australia. It is a spreading, resinous shrub with thick, leathery phyllodes arranged in small bundles, spherical heads of yellow or pale yellow flowers, and linear, sticky, woody pods.
Small-leaved flying-saucer bush grows in shallow red clay loam on stony plains and drainage areas, in Western Australia near the Northern Territory border between 20°S and 24°S, and in central western to central southern Northern Territory, in the Central Ranges, Great Sandy Desert, Tanami bioregions of Western Australia and the Central Ranges, Great Sandy Desert, MacDonnell Ranges and Tanami bioregions of the Northern Territory.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia minutifolia 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.
