Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia silvestris
Common name
Bodalla silver wattle, Red wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Open dry forest, often on rocky hill sides or in moist gullies. Coast and ranges south of Araluen. Tablelands south from the Cooma district.
Notes
Tree to 30 m tall. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth, sometimes finely fissured on older trees. Branchlets angled to cylindrical with low ridges, hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, compound, stalks appressed-hairy with minute hairs, and with 1 or several raised glands. Rachis 3-14 cm long, appressed-hairy with minute hairs, jugary glands present, 1–3 interjugary glands between successive pairs of pinnae. 10-36 pinnae each 3-9.5 cm long, each with 32-100 leaflets 0.3-1 cm long, 0.7-1.5 mm wide, hairy with appressed hairs on the margins and usually on the lower surface. Flower heads yellow, globular, 18-30 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 5-7.5 mm in diameter, in elongated 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~silvestris (accessed 28 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle photos, line drawings and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=s&id=23827&o=1
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