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Acacia pedleyi

Acacia pedleyi
Photo: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0

Acacia pedleyi, Pedley's wattle, is a slender wattle tree native to central Queensland, Australia, growing up to about 10 m in open woodland. It is an endangered species in Queensland and is rarely grown, so care advice is drawn from general wattle cultivation.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water young plants regularly until established, then allow the soil to dry between waterings; it tolerates dry seasons.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or loamy soil; tolerates poor soils.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. Queensland (Port Curtis Distr.)
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Acacia pedleyi, also known as Pedley's wattle, is a species of Acacia native to eastern Australia. It is considered to be an endangered species according to the Queensland Nature Conservation Act 1992.

Where it grows

A. pedleyi occurs in the understorey of open woodland and woodland communities along with Acacia crassa, Corymbia citriodora, Eucalyptus moluccana and Eucalyptus populnea. It is often situated on alluvial flats, hillslopes and ridges. The bulk of the population is located from around the Calliope Range to the Callide Range in the Port Curtis District in the Rockhampton Region of Central Queensland. Other much smaller populations are found near Biloela and around the Degalgil State Forest.

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 pedleyi 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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