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Acacia oncinophylla

Acacia oncinophylla
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0

Acacia oncinophylla, hook-leaved acacia, is a small shrub from south-west Western Australia, usually 0.5 to 3 m tall with phyllodes instead of true leaves and dense yellow flower spikes in late winter to spring. It needs good drainage and full sun to thrive.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently, letting the soil dry out between waterings; established plants need little extra water.
Soil
Free-draining sandy, gravelly or lateritic soil; avoid heavy wet clay.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates light frost, protect from prolonged hard freezes.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
WSW. Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia oncinophylla, commonly known as hook-leaved acacia, is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Juliflorae.

Where it grows

It is native to the Swan Coastal Plain and South West regions of Western Australia where it is commonly situated on hills andslopes growing in granitic or lateritic soils. It is found from around Mogumber in the north and down the Darling Range to around Wagerup in the south, often as a part of jarrah woodland communities.

Other Acacia plants

Acacia abbatiana · Acacia abbreviata · Acacia abrupta · Acacia acanthaster · Harrow Wattle · Acacia acellerata · Gold-dust acacia · Acacia aciphylla · Acacia acoma · Acacia acradenia · Strap Leaved Wattle · Acacia acuaria

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia oncinophylla 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.

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