Acacia Genistifolia

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Common Name:

SPREADING 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:

A prickly shrub growing to 3m high.

The phyllodes (modified leaves) are rigid, needle-like to 40 mm long and about 3 mm wide with a sharp point. They are 4-angled in cross-section.

Flowers are produced in globular heads, up to 8 mm diameter which are solitary in the leaf axils; pale yellow to white, occurring in mid-autumn to spring. Each head can have up to 30 very small staminate flowers.

The seed pods are 5 cm long and 3 mm wide, curved and evenly constricted between the seeds.
Small to medium prickly shrub growing to 3m high.
The phyllodes (modified leaves) are rigid, needle-like to 40 mm long and about 3 mm wide with a sharp point. They are 4-angled in cross-section.
Flowers are produced in globular heads, up to 8 mm diameter which are solitary in the leaf axils; pale yellow to white, occurring in mid-autumn to spring. Each head can have up to 30 very small staminate flowers.
The seed pods are 5 cm long and 3 mm wide, curved and evenly constricted between the seeds.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

Grows in dry sclerophyll forests and woodlands in NSW, Victoria, and Tasmania.
Often found on gravel and shaley soils.
Grows south from about Bathurst, west to Grenfell and Griffith, also recorded in the Warramgamba Catchment. It extends south through the tablelands and western slopes, as well as south western plains, into Victoria.

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Image Source: Flower - KeresH, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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

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