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Narrow-leaved wattle is a slender, erect Australian shrub grown for its fine grey-green phyllodes, yellow flower spikes and bird appeal. It needs full sun and well-drained soil, and the seeds need scarification or hot-water treatment before sowing.
Acacia tenuissima, commonly known as narrow-leaved wattle, broom wattle, minyana, slender mulga or slender wattle, is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Juliflorae endemic to temperate and tropical areas of Australia. Indigenous Australians, the Kurrama peoples, know the plant as Janangungu and the Banyjima know it as Murruthurru.
Seeds for the plant are commercially available and can be used in gardens as an attractive slender shrub for arid areas that are good bird attractors. To grow well, a sunny position in well-drained soil is required. Seeds need scarification or hot water treatment prior to planting. The seeds were collected by Indigenous Australians from the Pilbara region to be eaten and used in the making of damper.
It is native to arid areas of inland Australia. In South Australia it is found in northern western parts with a small population also centred around Lake Eyre in the east. It is found through much of the central and southern parts of the Northern Territory and in central Queensland. It also has a scattered distribution through the Kimberley and Pilbara regions of Western Australia. It is often found along ephemeral watercourses, on low undulating country, along rocky slopes and on stabilized inland dunes and spinifex plains. It can grow in sandy, loamy, clay and rocky soils. It is usually part of Eucalyptus woodland communities and is often with spinifex.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia tenuissima 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.
