Acacia Pravissima

Price:

$110.00 (including GST)

Common Name:

OVENS WATTLE

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Evergreen small tree with graceful drooping habit. Small yellow flowers in spring. Most soils. Tolerates dryness, lime, frost and snow.

WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE:

A tree growing to 8 m tall and potentially 5 m wide.
Phyllodes (modified leaves) are grey-green to blue-green and somewhat short and triangular, to about 1.5 cm long and wide with a sharp point (mucro).
Flowers produced in globular heads, to 5 mm in diameter, with up to 10 very small staminate flowers per head. The heads are clustered into racemes, up to 15 in each raceme in leaf axils.
The flowers are bright yellow, showy and produced in spring. The flowers also have a light scent.
Seed pods straight to slightly curved, to 8 cm long and less than 1 cm wide.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

It grows in sclerophyll forests and woodland, in clays and sandy loams on riverbanks, hillslopes and ridges. It grows on the southern tablelands and western slopes of NSW, south from the ACT, extending into Victoria.
Can tolerate long dry periods and needs some room to spread.
Plant in a full sun or part sun position.
Give a well-drained soil for best results.
Very showy in flower.

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

Very showy in flower.
It can be used as a windbreak and shelter.
Pruning after flowering is necessary to keep a denser habit if used in the garden.

Image Source: Flower - Donald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Image Source: Plant - John Tann from Sydney, Australia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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