Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Acacia suaveolens

Common name

Sweet wattle, Sweet-scented wattle

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, and heath. Coast and ranges. Sightings on the tablelands.

Notes

Shrub to 3 m tall. Bark smooth. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Branchlets angled to flattened, hairless, sometimes glaucous. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 5-15 cm long, 2-10 mm wide, hairless, more or less glaucous, midvein prominent, margins more or less prominent, tips pointed with a mucro. Flower heads pale yellow to white, globular, 3-10 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 4-7 mm in diameter, enclosed when young by conspicuous, overlapping bracts, in elongated clusters of 5-12 flower heads. Flowers Autumn to Spring.

Family was Mimosaceae.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~suaveolens  (accessed 28 April 2021)

World Wide Wattle photos, line drawings and description:  http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=s&id=20591&o=1