Acacia Buxifolia

Price:

$110.00 (including GST)

Common Name:

BOX LEAF WATTLE

PLEASE NOTE: Orders are by full tray only. Each tray contains 40 plants. When ordering, please choose how many trays you would like.

WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE:

1. Erect or spreading shrub growing 1–3 m high

2. Branchlets smooth, often reddish

3. ‘Leaves’ grey-green, elliptical to obliquely rounded, 1–4 cm long, 3–11 mm wide

4. Golden yellow globular flowerheads on fine hairless stalks in loose racemes, often profuse; flowering July to November

5. Seed pods straight or curved, 5–9 cm long, 5–8 mm wide, pale brown at maturity, sometimes with a whitish bloom
Erect or spreading shrub growing 1–3 m high.
Branchlets smooth, often reddish.
‘Leaves’ grey-green, elliptical to obliquely rounded, 1–4 cm long, 3–11 mm wide.
Golden yellow globular flowerheads on fine hairless stalks in loose racemes, often profuse; flowering July to November.
Seed pods straight or curved, 5–9 cm long, 5–8 mm wide, pale brown at maturity, sometimes with a whitish bloom.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

Widespread in dry eucalypt forest, woodland and heath of the tablelands and slopes.
Often found on rocky outcrops in granite country.
Extremely drought and frost tolerant.

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

Excellent low level cover in windbreaks: useful for recharge plantings.
Improves soil fertility by ‘fixing’ nitrogen.
Valuable habitat; provides pollen and seed for many native birds, butterflies and other insects.

SIMILAR PLANTS:

Acacia Decora - Western Silver Wattle - has narrower 'leaves' and fine golder hairs on branchlets and flowerhead stalks.

Image Source: Flower - Donald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Image Source: Plant - Donald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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