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Acacia rhetinocarpa
Neat wattle (Acacia rhetinocarpa) is a resinous, shrubby wattle native to southern South Australia, usually 0.5 to 2 m tall, with bright yellow flower heads. It is a vulnerable species in the wild, so it is grown mainly by native plant enthusiasts and restoration projects rather than as a common garden plant.
Acacia rhetinocarpa, commonly known as neat wattle or resin wattle, is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Phyllodineae native to southern Australia. It was listed as vulnerable under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 in 2013.
It is endemic to some small areas on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia near Arno Bay extending to the Yorke Peninsula near Curramulka and then between the Gilbert River and Monarto where it is found growing in calcareous sandy or sandy-loamy soils as a part of open scrubland communities that are dominated by Eucalyptus species. The total area over which the shrub is found has been calculated as 4,976 km2 (1,921 sq mi).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia rhetinocarpa 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.
