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ACACIA ampliceps
Salt Wattle or Spring Wattle
Family: Fabaceae
Characteristics: Bushy shrub or tree 1.5-8 metres
Seed per packet: Approx. 20
Seed per gram: Approx. 40
There are over 1200 species of acacia occurring in Australia, making it the largest genus of flowering plants in Australia.
Acacia ampliceps is a bushy shrub or small tree that typically grows to a height of three to five metres, sometimes to six to seven metres or higher or sometimes a prostrate shrub wth branchlets that are yellow-coloured and often pendulous.
The flowers occur from May to September, are arranged in 2 to 11 heads of racemes (unbranched) up to 100 millimetres long, on stalks five to twenty millimetres long in the axils or end for end of the branches.
Each head contains 25 to 50 white to creamy-coloured flowers.
As with most Acacia, they do not have true leaves, they have modified leaves known as phyllodes
The phyllodes are usually pendulous, variably shaped but often linear to lance-shaped, 70-250 millimetres long and 7-30 millimetres wide.
Drought-tolerant and resistant to the occasional frost.
Acacia ampliceps thrives along watercourses and in floodplains, coastal sand dunes, and salt flats, and it prefers sandy soils.
Occurs naturally in Carnarvon, Central Kimberley, Dampierland, Gascoyne, Great Sandy Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Murchison, Northern Kimberley, Ord Victoria Plain, Pilbara, and Tanami in Western Australia, extending into the east of the Northern Territory.
* Image by John Robert McPherson CC BY-SA 4.0
Acacia is easy to propagate from seed.
Acacia seeds can be sown year-round in much of Australia, but the best time to sow them is when the weather starts to warm in cooler climates.
- Sow in a well drained mix.
- Soak in water 24 hours
- Next, soak seeds in near boiling water for 24 hours ,to help soften the tough exterior and improve germination.
- Sow the seeds to a depth equal to the seed's width.
- Place in a semi-shaded position.
- Keep the soil moist, avoid overwatering and ensure it doesn’t dry out.
Germination: Typically occurs within two weeks.
Please note:
- Please do not be too hasty to discard seeds that do not germinate; seeds will often lie dormant until the conditions are similar to their natural germination requirements.
- As with all seeds, they must have adequate water to germinate, keep them moist, but not too wet.
- These growth notes are provided as guidance only and do not guarantee successful germination.
- The customer should do their due diligence that they are suited to their region.
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