Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia obtusifolia
Common name
Blunt-leaf wattle, Stiff-leaf wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Rainforest margins, wet and dry forest, woodland, and heath. Coast, ranges, and tablelands.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 16 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth or corrugated. Branchlets often longitudinallygrooved, angled towards the tips, hairless. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 8-25 cm long, 7-30 mm wide, straight or almost strongly curved, usually 2 or 3 or more longitudinal veins more prominent, margins more or less resinous and irregularly notched, tips more or less blunt. 1 marginal gland at the base. Flower heads creamy white to pale yellow, cylindrical, 30-70 mm long, single or paired. Flowers Spring to Summer. Arils on the seeds large, folded several times.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~obtusifolia (accessed 27 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle photos, line drawings and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=o&id=23759&o=1
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