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Senna glutinosa
Also called Sticky Acacia, White Acacia, Sticky Senna
Senna glutinosa is a sticky-stemmed, drought-hardy shrub or small tree from the arid interior of Australia, with yellow flowers and flat pods. The key to growing it is full sun and very sparing water, since it is adapted to dry, hot conditions.
Senna glutinosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to central and northern arid areas of Australia. It is a shrub or small tree with pinnate leaves with up to seven pairs of leaflets, their shape depending on subspecies, and yellow flowers arranged in groups with ten fertile stamens in each flower.
Senna glutinosa grows in arid shrubland in all mainland states of Australia and the Northern Territory, but not in Victoria. Subspecies chatelainiana in the central west of Western Australia, and subsp. glutinosa from the north-west of Western Australia to the Northern Territory and north-western South Australia. Subspecies × luerssenii occurs from the central coast of Western Australia to near the Northern Territory border, and subsp. pruinosa is found from north-western Western Australia to far northern South Australia, and far western Queensland and New South Wales.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Senna glutinosa 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.
