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Acacia semilunata

Acacia semilunata
Photo: Gderrin, CC BY-SA 4.0

Acacia semilunata, crescent-leaved wattle, is a compact shrub or small tree native only to south-east Queensland, Australia, where it grows on rocky hills. It is a hardy wattle that needs free-draining sandy soil and full sun.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water young plants regularly until established, then let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or sandy-loam soil; avoid heavy, waterlogged clay.
Temperature
Suited to subtropical conditions; protect from frost, roughly below 0 °C, especially when young.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
SE. Queensland (W. Dorbing Downs)
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia semilunata, commonly known as crescent-leaved wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to South East Queensland, Australia. It is a shrub or tree with terete branchlets covered with soft hairs, somewhat crowded narrowly elliptic to oblong phyllodes, racemes of spherical heads of golden yellow flowers, and linear, slightly curved, firmly leathery pods.

Where it grows

This species of wattle only in a small area in south eastern Queensland from Knockbreak Station and south to near Stanthorpe where it grows on low rocky hills in sand or sandy-loamy in open Eucalyptus communities.

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 semilunata 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.

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