Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia cremiflora
Common name
A wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Woodland and grassland. North and west from Yerranderie (in the Blue Mountains) and Mudgee.
Notes
Shrub to 2m or more tall. Branchlets ridged, sometimes more or less cylindrical, hairy. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 0.7-1.8 cm long, 4-14 mm wide, light to dark green-grey or green, sparsely hairy or hairless except for hairs confined to the leaf stalk or extending onto the margins and the midvein, midvein fairly prominent, lateral veins faint, margins mostly wavy, bases with one side longer than the other, tips pointed or blunt, sometiimes more or less squared off, with a mucro less than 2 mm long. 1 marginal gland to 1 mm above the base. Flower heads yellow, globular, 4-8 mm in diameter, 18-26 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), single in the leaf axils. Flowering: throughout the year.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~cremiflora (accessed 29 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=c&id=23902&o=1
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