Acacia Salicina

Price:

$110.00 (including GST)

Common Name:

COOBA, NATIVE WILLOW

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:

Tall shrub 3-6 m high with distinctive long drooping branchlets and pendulous blue-green phyllodes; branchlets slightly angular with a smooth grey bark; bark at the base hard, rough, grey-brown and fissured, often found in groves due to suckering habit.
Phyllodes broad-linear or narrow-oblanceolate, obtuse or slightly acuminate, 4-12 cm long, 4-20 mm broad, flat more or less flaccid, pendulous, 1 central vein, lateral veins numerous obscure; glands small 1 at the apexand usually 1-3 scattered along the upper margin.
Inflorescences axillary and solitary or mostly in racemes which are usually shorter than phyllodes consisting of 2-6 rather distant heads, sometimes appearing paniculate towards the ends of the branchlets; flower-heads globular, pale yellow, 15-25-flowered; flowers 5-merous.
Legumes narrowly oblong, 4-12 cm long c. 10 mm broad, flat or somewhat biconvex, thick woody; margins almost straight. Seeds longitudinal in legume; funicle thickened, usually scarlet, with 3-4 folds beneath the seed.
Flowers irregularly throughout the year with peak appearing to be Apr.–June.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

Grows mostly along water courses and on floodplains, in soils ranging from sand to clay.
Tolerates drought, lime and salf.
Usually frost resistant.

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

It's an excellent plant to use as a windbreak due to its bushy habit.
Plant has been found to be fire retardant under certain growing conditions.
Does have a tendency to sucker and though good for erosion control it is not an appropriate choice for streets or narrow spaces.

SIMILAR PLANTS:

It is distinguished most readily from Acacia Ligulata - Sandhill Wattle - by its pendulous phyllodes and cream to pale yellow heads.

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

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

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