Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia cardiophylla
Common name
Wyalong wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Mallee and woodland, especially in moist situations and on stream banks. Western Slopes.
Garden escape elsewhere. Roadsides and other disturbed sites. Planted in the ACT and occasionally in Sydney suburbs. Doubtfully naturalised in the ACT.
Notes
Introduced (to most of SE NSW) shrub or small tree to 4 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth. Branchlets obscurely angled, becoming cylindrical, with a waxy bloom, and spreading more or less stiff cream-coloured hairs, becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, 3-7 cm long. Rachis 1-6 cm long, hairy, 6-40 pinnae each 0.2-1.2 cm long and with 8-28 leaflets each 0.08-0.2 cm long, 0.5-1.3 mm wide, covered with minute warts, hairy, bases obliquely squared off to cordate, tips blunt to somewhat pointed. Flower heads yellow, globular, 16-40 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 3-5 mm in diameter, in elongated clusters of 6-21 flower heads. Flowers Winter to Spring. Pods hairy.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~cardiophylla (accessed 3 April, 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=c&id=20564&o=1
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