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Acacia pruinocarpa
Also called Western Gidgee
Black gidgee is a slow-growing, drought-tolerant Australian desert tree that grows upright to 3 to 12 m, with grey-green phyllodes and yellow flower clusters in spring. It is a species for dry, sunny sites and is rarely grown outside its native arid range.
Acacia pruinocarpa, commonly known as black gidgee, gidgee or tawu, is a tree in the family Fabaceae that is endemic to arid parts of Australia.
It is native throughout the arid centre of Australia, from Carnarvon, Western Australia, east to the Tanami Desert, Northern Territory and Mann Ranges, South Australia. It is especially common along watercourses and in low-lying areas that receive drainage. The tree is found in many types of habitat, usually in stony sand or loamy soils, and is associated with Acacia aneura and spinifex communities.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia pruinocarpa 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.
