Acacia Glaucoptera

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Common Name:

FLAT 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 small shrub groiwing to 1.2 metres tall and to 2 metres wide.
Phyllodes (modified leaves) are continuous with the branches which give the shrub a winged appearance and generates much interest. They are to 7 cm long and 2 cm wide which much of it fused to the branch, and with each phyllode virtually connecting to the next one. They are blue-green in colour and taper to a fine point (mucro). The new growth can be purple-red.
Flowers produced in globular heads, to 6 mm in diameter, with up to 80 very small staminate flowers per head. The heads are produced solitarily in phyllode axils. The flowers are bright yellow, showy and produced in spring.
Seed pods straight, oblong to linear, to 5 cm long and about 0.4 cm wide.
Clusters are globular in shape and are produced in the leaf axils in late winter to spring.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

It grows in shrubland, mallee and tall shrubland communities on gravelly clay to lateritic soils.
Grow in full sun or dappled shade.
Needs a well-drained soil to do well. Give an open position – such as a shrubby garden.

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

It does need regular pruning to keep it growing densely and promoting the new red-purple growth.

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

Image Source: Plant - Greig, D. via Australian National Botanic Gardens

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