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Acacia mountfordiae
Mountford's wattle is a multi-stemmed shrub or small tree from the Top End of the Northern Territory, Australia, grown for its grey-green weeping foliage and golden spring flowers. It needs full sun, excellent drainage and little water once established.
Acacia mountfordiae, commonly known as Mountford's wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, and is endemic to the Top End of the Northern Territory, Australia. It is an erect, multi-stemmed shrub or tree with fibrous bark and light brown branchlets, flat, half moon-shaped, straight or slightly curved phyllodes, spikes of golden yellow flowers, and narrowly oblong, thickly leathery pods.
The plant is sold commercially and is noted for its handsome weeping grey-green foliage contrasting with the bright golden flowers. It is drought tolerant, bird attracting and useful as a screening or filler plant.
This species of wattle is endemic to the a small area of the Northern Territory where it has a limited distribution around Gunbalanya (formerly Oenpelli Mission) where it is commonly situated on top of or at the base of sandstone escarpments growing in skeletal sandy soils.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia mountfordiae 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.
