Acacia Rubida

Price:

$110.00 (including GST)

Common Name:

RED STEM WATTLE

PLEASE NOTE: Orders are by full tray only. Each tray contains 40 plants. When ordering, please choose how many trays you would like.

Evergreen tall shrub with light green foliage. Yellow flowers in spring. Most soils. Tolerates dryness & frost.

WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE:

A bushy shrub or tree to 10 metres high.I t is often seen as a shrub, mostly single-stemmed.
The phyllodes (modified leaves) are narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, reddish to grey-green, to 20 cm long and to 2.5 cm wide. The juvenile foliage is bipinnate and can persist on older plants.
Very small staminate flowers are produced in globular heads, to 7mm and contain up to 15 pale to bright yellow flowers. The heads are clustered in racemes of up to 30 heads in leaf axils, occurring between July and November.
Pods are straight and flat, to 12 cm long and are about 1 cm wide.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

It grows mainly within the coastal and tablelands subdivisions of NSW, extending into the western slopes; also growing in eastern Victoria and only slightly into south-east Queensland.
It is often a part of open dry sclerophyll woodland or dry sclerophyll forest communities and grows on rocky hilltops and slopes in rocky soils. It can often be seen on road and track-sides in bushland areas.
Generally adaptable in cultivation preferring a sunny, reasonably well-drained positions in most soils.
Very hardy and frost tolerant.

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

A very useful wattle for drier gardens.

It has a history of being used in regeneration and rehabilitation including seeding roadsides after roadworks.
A very useful wattle for drier gardens.
It has a history of being used in regeneration and rehabilitation including seeding roadsides after roadworks.

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

Image Source: Plant - Kelly, D. via Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG)

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