Acacia Phasmoides

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Common Name:

PHANTOM 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:

An erect or spreading shrub or tree, 1 - 4 m high with smooth silver-grey bark.
The ‘leaves’ (phyllodes or leaf-like structures) are curved, stiff and thread-like, being 5 - 10 cm long and only 1 - 2 mm wide.
Golden-yellow flower-heads are produced between September and November.
The pods are curved, flat and slender, to 10 cm long and 4 mm wide.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

Grows in shrubby woodland on sandy, granitic soil near creeks or in rocky crevices.

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

The species is only known from one location in NSW: Woomagarma National Park in Greater Hume Shire. It is also found at Burrowa-Pine Mountain National Park in Victoria.
Vulnerable Australia and NSW - Listed as a threathen species.

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

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