Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia myrtifolia
Common name
Red-stemmed wattle, Myrtle wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, shrubland, and heath. Coast and ranges. Rarely elsewhere.
Notes
Shrub to 3 m tall or prostrate. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth. Branchlets angled with prominent ridges, hairless, often glaucous. New shoots often red. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 2-13 cm long, 4-30 mm wide, hairless, green, midvein and marginal veins prominent, tips somewhat pointed with a mucro. Flower heads white to pale yellow, globular, 2-8 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 6-13 mm in diameter, in elongated clusters of 3-8 flower heads. Flowers Winter to Spring.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~myrtifolia (accessed 27 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle photos, line drawings and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=m&id=3453&o=1
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