Acacia muelleriana, Mueller's wattle, is a bushy, many-stemmed shrub or small tree native to eastern Australia, with dark green bipinnate leaves and cream-coloured ball-shaped flowers from August to December. It grows best in full sun and free-draining soil.
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water well when young, then let it dry out between waterings; established plants tolerate drought.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gravelly soil; tolerates shallow, rocky ground.
Temperature
10–35 °C; frost tender, protect below about 0 °C.
How easy
Easy
Native range
SE. Queensland to EC. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical
About
Acacia muelleriana , commonly known as Mueller's wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a bushy, many-stemmed shrub or tree with smooth bark, terete branchlets angled towards the outer end, dark green bipinnate leaves, spherical heads of cream-coloured flowers arranged in panicles, and straight to curved and more or less flat pods constricted between the seeds.
Where it grows
Mueller's wattle occurs in eastern Queensland from north of Carnarvon and south to the Bunya Mountains, Kingaroy and the Darling Downs, as well as on the western slope of New South Wales as far west as Dubbo, east to the Goulburn River and south to Rylstone. It grows in shallow, rocky soild in open woodland or scrub on sandstone, conglomerate or basalt.
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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.