Plant knowledge
Acacia
Acacia auriculiformis
আকাশিয়া
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Origin
- Australia and New Guinea
- Native status
- introduced
- Habit
- tree
- Mature height
- 15–25 m
- Mature spread
- Open plantation canopy
- Climate
- Tropical lowlands; poor soils tolerated
- Light
- full sun
- Water
- low
- Soil
- Wide soil range; avoid permanent swamp
- Growth
- Fast
- Flowering
- Yellow spikes
- Fruiting
- Not a food crop
Uses
- Industrial plantation
- Shelter belts
Care
- Fast cover on open sites. Mix with natives if habitat is the brief.
Landscape uses
- Estate belts
- Industrial edges
Plantation cover; not a native woodland substitute.
Environmental benefits
- Fast canopy
- Poor-soil cover