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Acacia volubilis, known as tangle wattle, is a small, wiry, dome-shaped shrub from a tiny area of Western Australia's Wheatbelt, and it is critically endangered in the wild. It is rarely grown, and its care needs come mainly from general knowledge of Western Australian Acacia species in well-drained, sunny conditions.
Acacia volubilis, also known as tangle wattle, is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia. It is native to a small area in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. It has been declared endangered under the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
It is found in a small are between Cunderdin, Quairading and Tammin in gravelly sand or sandy clay soils. It is found along road verges and in shrubland communities over laterite or granite. Associated species include different species of Allocasuarina, Acacia, Grevillea, Actinostrobus and Hakea.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia volubilis 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.
