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Acacia pataczekii
Also called Wally's Wattle
Acacia pataczekii, commonly known as Pataczek's wattle or Wally's wattle, is a rare leguminous species of flowering plant endemic to Tasmania, Australia. An attractive evergreen shrub to small tree grown ornamentally outside of its native range, it is believed to be the most frost hardy of all the Acacia.
An uncommon and highly sought after garden plant, Pataczek's wattle is best suited in a sunny to partly shaded area protected from wind in cool or warm temperate climates. A hardy plant, reported to survive −18 °C in winter, and drought tolerant, it can be grown in most soil types. Recommended USDA Zone 7b to 8. With a medium to fast growth rate, a height of two to three metres can occur within 5 years from seedling, which is about the same time it takes to flower. Grown in botanic and residential gardens around the world, it can be used as an informal hedge, screen or specimen plant. In late winter to early spring buds form and explode into a mass of bright yellow flowers, often obscuring the foliage. A second flush of flowers can occur in summer in suitable conditions. New foliage is blue-green and silky to the touch and set amongst red-brown angular stems. Suckering can occur when adjacent soil is disturbed, but it can be kept in a pot if soil is kept moist.
Acacia pataczekii is native to the Australian island state of Tasmania with a limited range in pockets predominantly within the northeast at altitudes between approx. 500–1400 m asl; however, natural populations do occur in the Southern Midlands Region and it also does well under cultivation at sea level. It naturally exists as a shrub layer, understory tree or as scattered individuals in moist gullies and flats, mountain summits, slopes and plateau scarps in low woodland to tall open, dry, wet and mixed Eucalyptus forests, most of which are dominated by Eucalyptus delegatensis.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia pataczekii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
