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Leptosema aculeatum is a small, spiny, flat-branched shrub from the arid interior of Western Australia, grown mainly for its red flowers. It needs full sun, very free-draining soil and little water to thrive.
Leptosema aculeatum is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to inland areas of Western Australia. It is a shrub with a tuft of stems up to 30 cm (12 in) tall, many rigid, strongly flattened and spiny branchlets, leaves reduced to scales, red flowers, and beaked pods densely covered with silky hairs.
This species of Leptosema grows in hummock grassland dominated by Triodia from near Sandstone and south to near Mount Jackson and east to Queen Victoria Spring in the Coolgardie, Great Victoria Desert and Murchison bioregions of inland Western Australia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Leptosema aculeatum 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.
