Acacia Leucoclada

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Common Name:

NORTHERN SILVER 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:

Bushy or straggly open shrub, 0.3–2 m tall.
Erect tree growing 4–10 m high, with greygreen foliage and whitish young growth

Bark smooth and pale on young growth, becoming dark brown-black and fissured

Leaves feather-like, with a distinct nectarsecreting gland just below the point where each set of leaflets joins the main leaf stalk,

plus occasional smaller glands between

Golden yellow ball flowers, July to October

Seed pods straight, 4–12 cm long, 6–12 mm wide, reddish or grey-brown
Erect tree growing 4–10 m high, with grey-green foliage and whitish young growth.
Bark smooth and pale on young growth, becoming dark brown-black and fissured.
Leaves feather-like, with a distinct nectar secreting gland just below the point where each set of leaflets joins the main leaf stalk, plus occasional smaller glands between.
Golden yellow ball flowers, July to October.
Seed pods straight, 4–12 cm long, 6–12 mm wide, reddish or grey-brown.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

Found in drier open forest and woodland on poor, sandy or gravelly clay soils, red loams or acid granite sands.
Often seen growing in thickets on roadsides.
Extremely frost and drought tolerant.

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

Fast growing; useful for soil erosion control due to suckering habit.
Improves soil fertility by ’fixing‘ nitrogen.
Excellent habitat, attracting seed-eating and insect-eating birds; gum is favoured food of sugar and squirrel gliders.
Timber has potential for pulpwood production.

SIMILIAR SPECIES:

Acacia Dealbata - Silver Wattle - has glands at the base of each paired leaflet set (not below) and grows on moister sites.

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

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