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Vachellia antunesii

Vachellia antunesii
Photo: Meise Botanic Garden, CC BY 4.0

Vachellia antunesii is a small thorny tree from the dry plateaus of Huíla, Angola, reaching about 6 metres. It is rarely cultivated and is listed as Vulnerable, so growing it is best left to specialist collections.

Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply but infrequently, letting the soil dry out fully between waterings, and water less in cool months.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty mix; avoid heavy, waterlogged soil.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Angola (Huíla)
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Vachellia antunesii is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. It is a tree native to Angola. The species was described in 1901, and is listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN.

Where it grows

Vachellia antunesii is native to the seasonally dry tropical biome of Huíla, Angola. Its extent of occurrence is around 1,000 square kilometres (390 sq mi).

Other Vachellia plants

Vachellia albicorticata · Vachellia aroma var. aroma · Vachellia aroma var. huarango · Vachellia bucheri · Vachellia caven var. caven · Vachellia caven var. dehiscens · Vachellia caven var. microcarpa · Vachellia caven var. stenocarpa · Vachellia cernua · Vachellia flava · Vachellia haematoxylon · Vachellia kirkii

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Vachellia antunesii 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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