Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia floribunda
Common name
White sally, Gossamer wattle, White sally wattle, White sallow-wattle, Sally wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest and woodland, often along streams. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands. Doubtfully naturalised in the ACT.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 8 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth, sometimes becoming rough. Branchlets angled towards the tips, hairy to hairless, with lenticels. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 5-19 cm long, 1.5-12 mm wide, straight or slightly curved, hairless or hairy with appressed hairs (the hairs often remaining concentrated near the 'leaf' base), 1–4 longitudinal veins more prominent, tips pointed. Flower heads yellow to almost white, cylindrical, 20-80 mm long, single or in pairs. Flower stalks hairy to hairless, the hairs not golden. Flowers Winter to Spring. Pods raised over and constricted between the seeds, longitudinally ridged, appressed-hairy to hairless.
Hybridises with Acacia oxycedrus.
Family was Mimosaceae.
Narrow 'leaved' forms are similar to Acacia longissima. Differs from that species in that it has thicker 'leaves' and flower stalks that are often hairy.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~floribunda (accessed 27 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=f&id=18286&o=1
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