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Acacia toondulya

Acacia toondulya
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0

Acacia toondulya is a small wattle tree, typically about 3 m tall, endemic to a small area of South Australia where it grows on rocky hills. It is a species of Acacia, a genus of mostly shrubs and trees in the pea family.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established; it is adapted to dry, arid conditions and tolerates drought.
Soil
Well-drained loamy or gritty soil, tolerant of rocky and shallow ground.
Temperature
Tolerates hot, dry summers and cool winters; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
South Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia toondulya is a tree belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Phyllodineae native to southern Australia.

Where it grows

It is endemic only in a small area in South Australia from south western parts of the Gawler Range in the north and on the Eyre Peninsula in the south to around the southern parts of the Tothill Ranges in the south where it is found on rocky hills. It is found from Toondulya Bluff in the west to around the hills near Hiltaba in the east and down to Lake Acraman in the south where it is found on low rocky hills composed of granite and shale growing in loamy soils as a part of open shrubland and Triodia grassland 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 toondulya 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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