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Acacia pravifolia, the coil-pod wattle, is a prickly, spiny shrub from dry Australian shrublands and woodlands that grows to about 2 m. It is grown mainly as a hardy, drought-tolerant ornamental in dry, free-draining sites.
Acacia pravifolia, commonly known as the coil-pod wattle, is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Phyllodineae that is native to three areas of Australia.
The shrub it has a discontinuous distribution. It is native to an area in the Wheatbelt, Great Southern and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia from Israelite Bay in the east to Boxwood Hill in the south west and Wubin in the north west. It is also found throughout the Mount Lofty Range and Flinders Range in South Australia from around Angepena Station to around Burra. It is also found in Queensland and New South Wales in the eastern states from between Cobar and Temora in the south to around Tara and Warwick. It is often found as a growing in rocky shallow as a part of open shrubland or woodland communities.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia pravifolia 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.
