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Ironwood

Ironwood
Photo: D. Greig, ANBG
Alternative Plant
Ironwood
Acacia estrophiolata
 

A slow-growing, graceful, pendulous tree that may reach an eventual height of 16 m and a spread of 10 m. It is an ideal shade tree for the Alice Spring region. Like many Acacias, it has both juvenile and mature leaves that are distinctly different. Its young foliage is quite spiky. leaved. It produces pale yellow wattle flowers after winter rains in the wild but may be more freeflowering in garden situations. It is both frost tolerant and drought tolerant.

 

 
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