Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia pycnantha
Common name
Australian golden wattle, Golden wattle, Broad-leaved wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, open shrubland, heath, and grassy areas. Western Slopes. ACT. Tablelands south from Lake George. Ranges in Deua National Park west of Moruya.
Notes
Tree or shrub to 8 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth or finely fissured. Branchlets angled or cylindrical, hairless, sometimes glaucous. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 8-20 cm long, 5-50 mm wide, curved to strongly curved, surfaces hairless, midvein prominent, margins more or less prominent, tips pointed to blunt, bases with one side longer than the other, 1 or 2 marginal glands. 'Leaves' green and only of one type. Flower heads yellow, globular to oval, 40-80 flowered (best seen in late buds), 6-10 mm in diameter, in elongated clusters of 4-23 flower heads. Flowers Winter to Spring.
Family was Mimosaceae.
Records from the Sydney area are probably planted or garden escapes.
Regarded as indigenous and naturalised in the ACT. All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~pycnantha (accessed 28 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle photos, line drawings and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=p&id=3504&o=1
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