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Acacia prominens
Also called Gosford Wattle, Grey Sally, Sally Wattle, Gray Sally
Acacia prominens is a wattle shrub or small tree from southeastern Australia, grown for its fragrant yellow ball-shaped flowers in winter. It does best in moist, well-drained soil in a sunny to lightly shaded spot.
Acacia prominens (golden rain wattle, goldenrain wattle, Gosford wattle or grey sally) is a shrub or tree in the genus Acacia native to New South Wales, Australia.
It is endemic to southeastern Australia in New South Wales and also found in Victoria. In New South Wales, it is found from around the Hunter Valley in the north west to the Gosford and Sydney areas in the south east. It is often situated in damp and sheltered areas growing in loamy and clay soils along the margins of rainforest or as a part of wet sclerophyll forest communities. It is naturalised to parts of central Victoria including the goldfields, greater Grampians, Gippsland Plain and northern inland slopes.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia prominens 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.
