Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Acacia caesiella

Flowering stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Pods and 'leaves'. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Tableland(s) wattle, Bluebush wattle, Blue bush

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Dry forest and woodland, often on rocky sites. Mostly north of the area covered by this key. Blue Mountains. Near Burrinjuck. Rarely elsewhere.

Notes

Shrub to 4 m tall, sometimes a tree to 7 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth, branchlets angled at the tips, hairy, often slightly glaucous. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 4-10 cm long, 2-12 mm wide, slightly curved, surfaces hairy to hairless, usually with 3 main longitudinal veins (midvein most prominent), dotted with resin glands, often sticky, tips pointed with a mucro. Flower heads yellow, globular, 4-6.5 mm in diameter, 12-20 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), in elongated clusters of 4-14 flower heads, sometimes more. Flowering: July–October. 

Family was Mimosaceae.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~caesiella  (accessed 29 April 2021)

World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description:  http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=c&id=23587&o=1