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Acacia wetarensis

Acacia wetarensis
Photo: Ian Cowie, CC BY 4.0

Acacia wetarensis is a shrub or small tree in the pea family, native to the seasonally dry islands of Wetar (Indonesia) and Atauro (Timor-Leste). It is rarely grown outside its native range, so care guidance is based on general acacia requirements.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently, letting the soil dry between waterings; reduce water in the cool season.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or gritty mix; tolerates poor soil.
Temperature
20–35 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Lesser Sunda Is. (Wetar)
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

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Acacia wetarensis is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Juliflorae that is native to the Indonesian island of Wetar and Atauro Island of Timor-Leste in the Lesser Sunda Islands.

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 wetarensis 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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