Acacia Lanigera

Price:

$110.00 (including GST)

Common Name:

WOOLLY 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 0.5–2 m high with grey bark and rigid stems

Branchlets and new growth covered with pale woolly hairs

‘Leaves’ stiff, green to grey-green, flat, more than five times longer than wide with 3–5 or more distinct longitudinal veins and fine hairs

Flowerheads globular, bright golden yellow, in groups of 1–3 on short stalks in ‘leaf’ axils

Seed pods densely hairy, 6–10 cm long, 4–6 mm wide, usually curved or twisted

Flowering July to September
Erect or spreading shrub 0.5–2 m high with grey bark and rigid stems.
Branchlets and new growth covered with pale woolly hair.
‘Leaves’ stiff, green to grey-green, flat, more than five times longer than wide with 3–5 or more distinct longitudinal veins and fine hairs.
Flowerheads globular, bright golden yellow, in groups of 1–3 on short stalks in ‘leaf’ axils.
Seed pods densely hairy, 6–10 cm long, 4–6 mm wide, usually curved or twisted.
Flowering July to September.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

Found in woodland and dry eucalypt forest on poor gravelly and sandy soils.
Generally found as scattered occurrences on the tablelands and slopes south of Coonabarabran; not common
Can adapt to most soil types and is frost tolerant.

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

Useful low level cover in windbreaks and for stabilising soil.
Improves soil fertility by ‘fixing’ nitrogen.
Good habitat; provides pollen for native moths, butterflies and other insects; attracts insect-eating and seed-eating birds.

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

Image Source: Plant - Nadiatalent, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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