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Acacia phlebophylla
Acacia phlebophylla is a critically endangered shrub to small tree from the granite slopes of Mount Buffalo National Park in Victoria, Australia, grown only rarely in cultivation. It needs full sun, well-drained shallow granitic soil and cool, dry conditions to thrive.
Acacia phlebophylla, also known by the names Buffalo sallow wattle and Mount Buffalo wattle, is a shrub to small tree of the family Fabaceae. It grows up to a maximum of 6 metres (20 ft) tall and has wide, rounded asymmetrical phyllodes. It is a critically endangered species only known from the high elevation granite slopes of Mount Buffalo National Park in Victoria, Australia.
This species is known only from Mount Buffalo National Park with an estimated 25 to 40 subpopulations. It mostly occurs woodlands and heathlands on steep slopes between 500-1200m above sea level. It grows in shallow to skeletal soils of granite, often amongst boulders.
Acacia phlebophylla is one of the purest natural sources of the psychedelic drug dimethyltryptamine, also known as DMT, which occurs as the predominant alkaloid throughout the plant.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia phlebophylla 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.
