Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia saliciformis
Common name
Willow wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Forest, often on rocky ridges and on along streams. Ranges west and north of Sydney. One sighting between Wollongong and Kiama.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 7 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth. Branchlets angled or flattened, hairless, sometimes glaucous, dark red. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, usually 5-14 cm long, 7-20 mm wide, hairless, with a prominent midvein, tips pointed with a mucro. Flower heads pale yellow to creamy white, globular, 4-8 mm in diameter, 20-45 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), in elongated clusters of 5-22 flower heads. Flowering: usually April–September.
Family was Mimosaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~saliciformis (accessed 28 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle line drawings, photos, and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=s&id=23816&o=1
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