Acacia Decora

Price:

$110.00 (including GST)

Common Name:

WESTERN SILVER 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. Spreading rounded shrub growing 1–4 m high and wide

2. Branchlets yellow or reddish, minutely hairy

3. ‘Leaves’ grey-green, 1.5–5 cm long, 3–7 mm wide, radiating around branchlets, variable in shape

4. Bright golden ball flowers in heavy clusters at branch ends; flower stalks stout, with minute golden hairs; flowering April to October

5. Seed pods straight or curved, 5–10 cm long, 4–9 mm wide, dark brown at maturity, may have a whitish bloom
Spreading rounded shrub growing 1–4 m high and wide.
Branchlets yellow or reddish, minutely hairy.
‘Leaves’ grey-green, 1.5–5 cm long, 3–7 mm wide, radiating around branchlets, variable in shape.
Bright golden ball flowers in heavy clusters at branch ends; flower stalks stout, with minute golden hairs; flowering April to October.
Seed pods straight or curved, 5–10 cm long, 4–9 mm wide, dark brown at maturity, may have a whitish bloom.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

Occurs in dry sclerophyll forest and open woodland, especially box, cypress pine and mallee, also occurs in scrub and grassland; often found in dense stands.
Widespread on a variety of soils from sandy or stony to heavy clay loams; occurs on rocky hillsides and ridges as well as on flats and lower slopes.
Tolerates some dryness & lime; usually frost resistent.

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

Excellent low level cover in windbreaks, useful for recharge control plantings.
Improves soil fertility by ‘fixing’ nitrogen; regenerates readily from seed, particularly after fire.
Valuable habitat; provides pollen and a seed source for many native birds and insects.

SIMILAR PLANTS:

Acacia Buxifolia- Box-leaf Wattle - has broader, more rounded ‘leaves’; flowerheads on fine hairless, reddish stalks; and tends to grow on rocky or gravelly sites higher in the landscape.

Image Source: Flower - Ethel Aardvark, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Image Source: Plant - Fagg, M. via Australian National Botanic Gardens

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