Acacia Vestita

Price:

$110.00 (including GST)

Common Name:

HAIRY 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:

Spreading, multi-stemmed shrub, growing 1–4 m high and wide

Branchlets weeping and densely hairy

‘Leaves’ ovate to elliptic, with a fine point at the tip, grey-green, hairy, 1–2 cm long, 6–10 mm wide

Bright golden yellow ball flowers in extended clusters at branchlet ends

Flowering August to October

Seed pods thin and leathery, 3–9 cm long, 6–13 mm wide
Spreading, multi-stemmed shrub, growing 1–4 m high and wide.
Branchlets weeping and densely hairy.
‘Leaves’ ovate to elliptic, with a fine point at the tip, grey-green, hairy, 1–2 cm long, 6–10 mm wide.
Bright golden yellow ball flowers in extended clusters at branchlet ends.
Flowering August to October Seed pods thin and leathery, 3–9 cm long, 6–13 mm wide.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

Occurs in open eucalypt forest or woodland on drier hillsides, often on steep slopes or in sheltered gullies.
Natural occurrence is in the Wellington Forbes area and around Bombala; widely cultivated as an ornamental in other locations.
Extremely drought and frost tolerant.
Adaptable to a range of soil types.

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

Useful low level cover in windbreaks and useful for stabilising soils due to spreading/suckering habit.
Excellent low level cover in windbreaks.
Improves soil fertility by ‘fixing’ nitrogen.
Valuable habitat, providing refuge, pollen and large amounts of seed for birds and other wildlife.

SIMILIAR SPECIES:

Acacia Pravissima- Oven's Wattle - have similar shaped 'leaves' but are smooth and hairless.

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

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

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