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Hard Leaf Wattle

Acacia sclerophylla

Hard Leaf Wattle
Photo: Kym Nicolson, CC BY 4.0
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Water
Drought tolerant
Native range
SW. Western Australia, S. South Australia to SW. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia sclerophylla, commonly known as the hard-leaf wattle, is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves and is endemic to southern parts of Australia.

How to grow it

The hardy and attractive species are often used for hydroseeding on roadside that can grow in a variety of soils. It requires little maintenance, is drought tolerant and frost hardy down to 7 °C (45 °F).

Where it grows

It is native to southern areas in South Australia and Victoria as well as an area in the Wheatbelt and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia. It is also found in south eastern parts of South Australia, eastern parts of Victoria and south eastern parts of New South Wales.

Other Acacia plants

Acacia abbatiana · Acacia abbreviata · Acacia abrupta · Acacia acanthaster · Harrow Wattle · Acacia acellerata · Gold-dust acacia · Acacia aciphylla · Acacia acoma · Acacia acradenia · Strap Leaved Wattle · Acacia acuaria

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia sclerophylla by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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