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Acacia monticola
Also called Curly Bark Wattle
Acacia monticola is a resinous, multi-stemmed shrub or small tree from arid northern Australia, growing 2 to 8 m tall with sticky, reddish-brown bark. It is grown mainly as a drought-tolerant landscape or native garden plant, and it needs full sun and very well-drained soil.
Acacia monticola, commonly known as curley-bark wattle, Minni ritchi, red wattle, curley-bark tree, hill turpentine or gawar is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, and is endemic to north-western Australia. It is resinous, sticky shrub or tree with minni ritchi bark, branchlets angled towards the outer end and with wvy ridges, round, broadly egg-shaped, narrowly elliptic, flat phyllodes, spherical to oblong heads of yellow flowers, and narrowly oblong pods raised over the seeds.is a species of plant in the legume family that is native to northern Australia.
Curley-bark wattle is widespread in Western Australia the Northern Territory and central-eastern Queensland, where it grows on red sand, ironstone or lateritic soils in pindan, and on stony plains and rocky ridges in woodland, open shrubland or spinifex. In northern Western Australia it is found in the Central Kimberley, Central Ranges, Dampierland, Gibson Desert, Great Sandy Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Northern Kimberley, Ord Victoria Plain, Pilbara and Tanami and in the Northern Territory in the Burt Plain, Central Arnhem, Central Kimberley, Central Ranges, Channel Country, Daly Basin, Dampierland, Davenport Murchison Ranges, Einasleigh Uplands, Gibson Desert, Great Sandy Desert, Gulf Fall and Uplands, Little Sandy Desert, MacDonnell Ranges, Mitchell Grass Downs, Mount Isa Inlier, Northern Kimberley, Ord Victoria Plain, Pilbara, Pine Creek, Sturt Plateau, Tanami andVictoria Bonaparte bioregions.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia monticola 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.
