Acacia Gunnii

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Common Name:

PLOUGHSHARE 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 yypically growing to 1 metre high and wide.
The phyllodes (modified leaves) shape is very variable, ranging from semi-trullate (brickies-trowel shape), lanceolate or broadly to narrowly triangular, to 15 mm long and 5 mm wide.
Cream to pale yellow flowers are produced in globular heads, with up to 30 very small, staminate flowers per head.
Heads are produced singularly in leaf axils, in June to October.
Seed pods are curved or coiled, to 40 mm long and to 5 mm wide.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

It is found in dry sclerophyll communities, in various soil types. Widespread in New South Wales (western areas of coastal subdivisions, tablelands and western slopes), as well as South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, Australian Capital Territory, and Queensland.

Requires a well-drained position in full sun to grow at its best and will tolerate some shade.
It is found in dry sclerophyll communities, in various soil types.
Widespread in New South Wales (western areas of coastal subdivisions, tablelands and western slopes), as well as South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, Australian Capital Territory, and Queensland.
Requires a well-drained position in full sun to grow at its best and will tolerate some shade.

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Image Source: Flower - Ian Sutton from Oberon, Australia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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

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