Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Acacia stricta
Common name
Hop wattle, Straight wattle
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Wet and dry forest, woodland, shrubland, and heath, often in moist sites. Mainly coast and ranges. Occasionally tablelands. Doubtfully naturalised in the ACT.
Notes
Shrub or tree to 6 m tall, often suckering. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Bark smooth. Branchlets angled or flattened, with yellow resinous ridges, hairless, often scurfy. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 3.5-14 cm long, 3-15 mm wide, hairless, midvein prominent, tips blunt, sometimes with a mucro. 1 marginal gland at the base. Flower heads yellow to white, globular to oval, 20-38 flowered, (easiest seen in late buds), 4-5 mm in diameter, in clusters of 2-4. 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~stricta (accessed 28 April 2021)
World Wide Wattle photos, line drawings and description: http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=s&id=23838&o=1
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