Acacia Montana

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Common Name:

MALLEE 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:

Branches may be arching, or stiff and upright; stems smooth or hairy, somewhat angled at extremities.
‘Leaves’ are extremely variable; rounded or elongated, smooth or hairy, 5–20 mm long, 3–10 mm wide, with a soft point at the tip.
Golden-yellow ball flowerheads (1–2 per leaf axil) are profuse from August to October.
Seed pods are rough, twisted and coiled many times, 3–7 cm long.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

Occurs mainly on slopes and plains in dry open forest and woodland

Commonly found on sandy red earths in mallee; also grows on heavy clay soils and

shallow soils on stony ridges

Extremely drought and frost tolerant
Occurs mainly on slopes and plains in dry open forest and woodland.
Commonly found on sandy red earths in mallee; also grows on heavy clay soils and shallow soils on stony ridges.
Extremely drought and frost tolerant

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

Useful low level cover in windbreaks and useful for stabilising soils due to spreading/suckering habit.
Useful as low-level cover in windbreaks.
Coppices after fire.
Improves soil fertility by ‘fixing’ nitrogen.
Good wildlife habitat; flowers attract butterflies, moths and other native insects; attracts seed-eating and insect-eating birds.
Prone to insect attack which results in small, white, woolly galls

SIMILIAR SPEICES:

Acacia Verniciflua - Varnish Wattle - has a more open growth habit, ‘leaves’ with only two main veins and hairless, resinous seed pods.

Image Source: Flower - Melburnian, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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

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