Acacia Acinacea

Price:

$110.00 (including GST)

Common Name:

GOLD DUST 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:

Bushy or straggly open shrub, 0.3–2 m tall.
Branches may be arching, or stiff and upright; stems smooth or hairy, somewhat angled at extremities.
‘Leaves’ are extremely variable; rounded or elongated, smooth or hairy, 5–20 mm long, 3–10 mm wide, with a soft point at the tip.
Golden-yellow ball flowerheads (1–2 per leaf axil) are profuse from August to October.
Seed pods are rough, twisted and coiled many times, 3–7 cm long.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

Grows in open forests and woodlands on drier shallow soils in hilly country (south from Gilgandra).
Found mainly on sand, sandy loam or gravelly soil.
Extremely frost and drought tolerant.

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

Useful low level cover in windbreaks and useful for stabilising soils due to spreading/suckering habit.
Regenerates readily from seed or suckers after fire and may form a dense ground cover; heavy pruning or grazing can promote suckering.
Improves soil fertility by ‘fixing’ nitrogen.
Good wildlife habitat, providing nectar, pollen and seed for many native insects and birds.

Image Source: Flower- DavidFrancis34 from Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Image Source: Plant - I, Scottwatson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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