Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia irrorata subsp. irrorata
Common name
Green wattle, Blueskin, Sydney green wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry and wet forest and rainforest margins, often near streams. Coast and ranges north of Bega. Tablelands north of the Kings Highway.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 12 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth, later rough, sometimes finely fissured. Branchlets angled to cylindrical, ridged, warty, yellow- to whitish-hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, rachis 2–12.5 cm long, hairy, glands on the leaf stalk absent or 1 gland at the base of or below the lowest pair of pinnae; jugary glands usually present between the upper 1–4 pairs of pinnae, interjugary glands absent. 10-52 pinnae each 1.5-5 cm long each with 30-144 leaflets each 0.2-0.5 cm long, 0.4-0.7 mm wide, more or less hairless on the upper surface, more or less hairless or hairy with white or pale yellow finely curled. hairs on the lower surface, margins fringed. Flower heads yellow to cream, globular, 15-50 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 5-7 mm in diameter, in elongated or branched clusters. Flowers any time of year.
Vulnerable Vic.
Hybridises with Acacia maidenii.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description with photos: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~irrorata (accessed 22 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=i&id=23686&o=1
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