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Acacia translucens
Poverty bush is a low, spreading desert shrub native to northern Australia, grown in gardens in tropical and arid regions. It needs full sun, well-drained soil and little water once established.
Acacia translucens, commonly known as poverty bush, is a shrub that is endemic to a large area of north western Australia.
The plant is used in gardens and is a hardy grower in tropical regions and needs a sunny position and well-drained soil. The seeds need to be treated with boiling water or scarified for propagation.
It is native to arid areas of spinifex plains in northern Australia. It is distributed throughout the inland Pilbara and Kimberley regions of Western Australia, and east into the Victoria River region of the Northern Territory usually growing in shallow sandy soils of sandstone. It is often situated in gully floors and on hillsides as a part of open Eucalyptus woodland communities.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia translucens 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.
