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Acacia tenuispica is a wattle, a shrub or small tree from the Kimberley region of north-western Australia, grown mainly in dry tropical climates. It is a little-known species, and the key to growing it is giving it full sun and very good drainage.
Acacia tenuispica is a tree or shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Juliflorae that is endemic to north western Australia.
It is native to an area in the Kimberley region of Western Australia where it is found in the catchment are of the Prince Regent River and east of Walcott Inlet and also in the catchment area of the Drysdale River where it is situated in a variety of habitat mostly around sandstone as a part of Eucalyptus woodland communities.
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 tenuispica 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.
