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Acacia viscidula
Sticky wattle is a fast-growing Australian shrub or small tree with resinous, phyllode-bearing branches and bright yellow ball-shaped flowers in spring. It is easy to grow in full sun or part shade in well-drained soil and is drought tolerant once established.
Acacia viscidula, also known as sticky wattle, is a shrub of the genus Acacia and the subgenus Plurinerves that is endemic to an area of eastern Australia.
The plant is available commercially in seedling or in seed form. The seeds have to be treated with boiling water before sowing. Growing by propagation of cuttings should be possible. It is useful as a screen or as an informal hedge. It can be quite dense making it a suitable nesting sites for small native birds. It is fast growing, will tolerate full sun or partial shade, can tolerate a light frost, is drought tolerant once established and prefers well-drained soil.
The is found in the Darling Downs region of south eastern Queensland and eastern parts of New South Wales. In Queensland the range extends as far west as Injune and in New South Wales as far west as around Coonabarabran where it is found un upland areas with granite based soils and is usually a part of low woodland communities along with species of Eucalyptus and other Acacias. In New South Wales it is mostly located in the Tablelands Region from around Tamworth in the south out to Mount Kaputar National Park in the west and to around Tenterfield in the west where it is usually part of dry sclerophyll forest communities or among the heath in crevices of granite outcrops.
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 viscidula 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.
