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Acacia Difformis

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Common Name:
DROOPING 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:

  • Erect or spreading shrub 2-4m high with hairless angular branches, frequentlu flattened. 
  • The dull green leaves have a main vein and a fainter second vein. 'Leaves' are sometimes narrowly elliptic to linear, subfalcate, 6–16 cm long, 4–25 mm wide, Inflorescences 3–19 in an axillary raceme, or sometimes in a terminal panicle; axis 1–7 cm long; peduncles 3–6 mm long, glabrous; heads globose, 15–35-flowered, 3.5–5 mm diam., yellow.
  • Pods straight or curved, rounded over seeds, 5–15 cm long, 4–6 mm wide, thinly leathery to firmly papery and brittle.
  • Flowers are yellow to very pale.
  • Flowering is usually December and January. 

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

  • Common in areas generally west of the Olympic Highway. 
  • Grows in sandy soils, open forests, and usually occurs in mallee communities. 
  • Well-drained soils, although seesm adaptable. 

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

  • Useful cover in windbreaks. 
  • Useful in soil stabilising due to suckering. 
  • Legume, improves soil fertility by "fixing" nitrogen. 
  • Good habitat for wildlife.
  • Attractive in garden. 
  • Regular watering during dry periods is beneficial.Do not appear to set seed, and the plants spread by suckering. 

 

 

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

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