Acacia Iteaphylla

Price:

$110.00 (including GST)

Common Name:

FLINDERS RANGE 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:

Small shrub growing to 1-3 meters tall.
Phyllodes are about ten centimetres long, less than one centimetre wide, blue-green and ending in a soft point. Juvenile growth has a pink colour.
The yellow staminate flowers are arranged in globular heads, with up to 20 flowers per head, with heads carried in axillary racemes (up to 16 heads per raceme). The racemes are enclosed in large, brown, imbricate (overlapping as roof tiles) bracts. They fall away before flowering.
Flowering is said to extend from March to September. In cold climates, flowering usually starts in mid-February, through autumn, winter and extending into early spring.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

Useful medium-level cover in windbreaks.
Good wildlife habitat, providing nectar, pollen and seed for many native insects and birds.
Good for erosion control.

Image Source: Flower - Consultaplantas, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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

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