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Velvet Hill wattle and silky wattle

Acacia acradenia

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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.

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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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