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Acacia tropica is a shrub or small tree from tropical northern Australia, grown mainly for its bright yellow flower spikes. It suits warm, sunny sites with well-drained sandy soil.
Acacia tropica is a shrub or small tree native to tropical areas northern Australia.
It is found in the Gulf country of north western Queensland as far east as Croydon extending to the west into the top end of the Northern Territory to around Darwin. It is commonly found alongside creeks and rivers and at base of sandstone hills growing in deep sandy soils in scrubland communities often is association with Melaleuca viridiflora.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia tropica 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.
