Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Acacia vestita

Flowering stem. Photographer Don Wood, Yambulla State Forest south-east of Bombala

Pods and 'leaves'. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Royal Botanic Gardens Mt Annan near Campbelltown

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Stocks Native Nursery, Harden

Common name

Weeping boree, Hairy wattle

Family

Fabaceae

Where found

Dry forest and woodland, often on rocky slopes or in gullies. Western Slopes north and west from the Young district. Tablelands and ranges.

Suburban plants in Canberra and around Sydney are garden escapes.

Notes

Shrub to 5 m tall. Bark smooth. Fleshy seed stalks/arils. Branches weeping. Branchlets more or less cylindrical, hairy. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 1-2 cm long, 4-10 mm wide, hairy (or hairy only on the margins), midvein prominent, tips more or less pointed to blunt with a delicate mucro 1–2 mm long. Flower heads yellow, globular, 10-30 flowered (easiest seen in late buds), 3.5-5 mm in diameter, in elongated clusters of 8-25 flower heads. Flowers Winter to Spring.

Family was Mimosaceae.

Hybridises with Acacia pravissima.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~vestita (accessed 28 April 2021) 

World Wide Wattle photos, line drawings and description:  http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=v&id=20594&o=1