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Acacia pravissima
Also called Tumut Wattle, Ovens Wattle, Oven's Watttle, Wedge Leaved Wattle, Oven's Wattle
Acacia pravissima is an evergreen wattle shrub or small tree from the mountains of southeastern Australia, grown for its winter and spring display of golden ball-shaped flowers. It is hardy and easy, and prefers well-drained soil in full sun or part shade.
Acacia pravissima, commonly known as Ovens wattle, Oven wattle, wedge-leaved wattle and Tumut wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae. It is an evergreen shrub native to southeastern Australia.
Ovens wattle is hardy and easy to grow. It can be propagated from scarified seed and grows in most soils, in full sun or part shade, preferring well-drained soil. It is frost hardy to −7 °C (19 °F).
In is endemic to southeastern Australia in the more elevated areas of the Great Dividing Range from around Tumut (e.g. the South West Slopes and Southern Tablelands) in New South Wales in the north through the Cotter Range and Australian Capital Territory down to around the Strathbogie Range and Macalister River in Victoria. It often grows in damp, sheltered sites and along creeks and streams, usually as a part of Eucalyptus forest and woodland communities.
Jam wattle · Mulga · Acacia aneura var. major · Mulga · Earleaf acacia · Cootamundra wattle · Gidgee · Bower wattle · Cole's Wattle · Small Philippine acacia · Knife acacia · Silver Wattle
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia pravissima 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.
