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Velvet Hill wattle and silky wattle
Acacia acradenia
About
Acacia acradenia, commonly known as Velvet Hill wattle and silky wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is native to northern and central Australia. It is a spindly shrub or tree with elliptic or narrowly elliptic phyllodes, spikes of orange or golden flowers and linear, crustaceous pods. The Nyangumarta peoples know it as walypuna the Alyawarr call it ampwey, the Jaminjung and Ngaliwurru know it as mindiwirri, the Jaru as binbali or gundalyji, the Kaytetye as ampweye or arwele and the Warlpiri as ngardurrkura.
- Family
- Fabaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Acacia acradenia
- Slug
- acacia-acradenia
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Acacia
- Species
- acradenia
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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