Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia podalyriifolia
Common name
Queensland silver wattle, Mt Morgan wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Roadsides and railway lines, disturbed sites, and near habitations. Can grow from seeds in natural bushland. Naturalised in coastal areas.
Native to between Stanthorpe and Mt Morgan in Queensland.
Notes
Introduced (to SE NSW) tree or shrub to 10m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth or finely fissured. Branchlets more or less cylindrical, glaucous, hairy, rarely hairless . 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 2-5 cm long, 10-27 mm wide, silvery grey to glaucous, almost hairless except for hairs on the margins, midvein prominent and slightly towards the upper margin, tips pointed to blunt with a mucro. Flower heads yellow, globular, 15-30 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 5-8 mm in diameter, in elongated clusters of 8-22 flower heads. Flowers all year, mainly Winter to Spring. Pods straight or twisted, more or less velvety, sometimes becoming hairless.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~podalyriifolia (accessed 28 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle photos, line drawings and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=p&id=17860&o=1
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