Acacia Pycnantha

Price:

$110.00 (including GST)

Common Name:

GOLDEN 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:

Shrub or small tree growing 3–8 m high with smooth brown or grey bark and rounded reddish branchlets

‘Leaves’ smooth, thick and leathery, 6–20 cm long, 5–30 mm wide, wider when young, varying in shape from curved to almost oval

Dense golden yellow ball flowers clustered on stout stalks; flowering July to November

Seed pods flattish, 5-14cm long, 5-8mm wide, straight or slightly curved, slightly constricted between seeds, brown at maturity
Shrub or small tree growing 3–8 m high with smooth brown or grey bark and rounded reddish branchlets.
‘Leaves’ smooth, thick and leathery, 6–20 cm long, 5–30 mm wide, wider when young, varying in shape from curved to almost oval.
Dense golden yellow ball flowers clustered on stout stalks; flowering July to November.
Seed pods flattish, 5-14cm long, 5-8mm wide, straight or slightly curved, slightly constricted between seeds, brown at maturity.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

Occurs in dry eucalypt forest, box woodland and heath on sandy, stony and loamy soils.
Tolerates drought and dry shallow soils.

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

Useful low level cover in windbreaks and useful for stabilising soils due to spreading/suckering habit.
Fast-growing; short-lived, but regenerates readily from seed especially after fire; may form thickets.
Useful low level cover in windbreaks and for stabilising soil due to fibrous roots; improves soil by ‘fixing’ nitrogen .
Young plants often frost tender; mature plants are reasonably frost tolerant.
Attracts native birds, moths, butterflies and other insects; gum is an important food for squirrel and sugar gliders.
Floral emblem of Australia; seed is used in bush food industry; bark is one of the richest tannin sources in the world but is now rarely used.

SIMILIAR SPECIES:

Acacia Hakeoides - Hakea Wattle - has narrower leaves without conspicuous lateral veins.
Acacia Difformis - Drooping Wattle - has 'leaves' with two longitudinal veins.

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

Image Source: Plant - James St. John, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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