This shrub has low spreading branches that are covered in stiff hairs and forms an upright to prostrate habit. It has dull-green triangular-shaped pungent leaves and the yellow ball-shaped flower head appears solitary during spring.

Hardiness zones 9 to 11

Acacia amblygonais naturally found in Australia from Queensland along the coast and in the central western slopes of New South Wales growing in open forests from sea level to an altitude of 632 m (2,073 ft).

It grows in sandy to heavy soils that are very in a well drained and moderately fertile in an open to exposed sunny position and is frost, salt spray and frost tolerant.

The Fan Wattle is grown for its low spreading habit and its flowers. It is planted in small gardens in shrub borders or in rockeries and is suitable for exposed embankments. It establishes in 2 to 3 years and prostrate forms are used as a ground cover tolerating most conditions. ID 2573

Acacia(a-KAY-see-a) amblygona (am-bli-go-na)

Fabaceae (fab-AY-see-ee)
subfamilyMimosoideae
Wattles