Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Acacia pedina

Flowering stem and 'leaves'. Photographer Don Wood, Murrah State Forest south of Bermagui

Pods and 'leaves'. Photographer Jackie Miles

Shrub. Phorotgrapher Jackie Miles, near Tathra

Common name

Bermagui golden wattle

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Dry open forest, on slopes, headlands, and behind sand dunes. Coastal between Dalmeny and Tathra.

Notes

Tree or shrub to 7 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth or with shallow fissures. Branchlets more or less cylindrical, hairless. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 5-12 cm long, 12-43 mm wide, grey-green, hairless, midvein prominent, margins vein-like, tips broadly blunt, bases with one side longer than the other, 1 or 2 marginal glands. Juvenile 'leaves' blue-green, larger, 8.5-16 cm long, 27-80 mm wide, with a gradual transition in size to adult 'leaves'. Flower heads yellow, globular to slightly oval, 25-40 flowered, (easiest seen in late buds), 6-8 mm in diameter, in elongated clusters of 3-19 flower heads or branched clusters. 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~pedina  (accessed 28 April 2021)

World Wide Wattle line drawings and description:  http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=p&id=23925&o=1