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Acacia Mearnsii

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Common Name:
BLACK 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-to-medium, spreading trees 7-10 m high, canopy rounded or conical with branches almost to the ground; branchlets angular, pubescent; bark smooth and greenish-brown on young branchlets, blackish and rough on main trunks, often exudes a gum.
  • Leaves bipinnate, all parts softly pubescent; petiole 1-5 cm long, often with a gland above; rachis 4-15 cm long, with a raised gland at the junction of each pinnae pair and usually with additional glands irregularly spaced between the pinnae pairs; pinnae 8-25; pinnules 30-70 pairs, crowded, 1.5-4 mm long, 0.5-0.75 mm broad, linear-oblong, obtuse.
    Inflorescences very abundant in long, axillary racemes and panicles; flower-heads globular, pale yellow, fragrant, 20-30-flowered; peduncles golden pubescent, 5-8 mm long; flowers 5-merous.
    Legumes broad-linear, 5-10 cm long, 5-8 mm broad, almost moniliform, dark grey-brown to blackish, more or less covered with a fine whitish tomentum. Seeds longitudinal in legume, ellipsoid; funicle short, expanded into an oblique aril.
    Leaves bipinnate, all parts softly pubescent; petiole 1-5 cm long, often with a gland above; rachis 4-15 cm long, with a raised gland at the junction of each pinnae pair and usually with additional glands irregularly spaced between the pinnae pairs; pinnae 8-25; pinnules 30-70 pairs, crowded, 1.5-4 mm long, 0.5-0.75 mm broad, linear-oblong, obtuse. 
  • Inflorescences very abundant in long, axillary racemes and panicles; flower-heads globular, pale yellow, fragrant, 20-30-flowered; peduncles golden pubescent, 5-8 mm long; flowers 5-merous.
  • Legumes broad-linear, 5-10 cm long, 5-8 mm broad, almost moniliform, dark grey-brown to blackish, more or less covered with a fine whitish tomentum. Seeds longitudinal in legume, ellipsoid; funicle short, expanded into an oblique aril.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

  • Well drained soils of open forests and cleared areas from lowlands to mountains. 
  • Frost tolerant. 
  • Full sun, semi or dappled shade. 
  • Borer attack can cause branch breakages in high wind and a shorter life span.

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

  • Attractive shade tree.
  • Plant away from target areas.

 

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

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