Catkin Wattle
Acacia dallachiana
Family Fabaceae
About
Acacia dallachiana, commonly known as catkin wattle is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to higher altitudes near the New South Wales-Victoria border in south-eastern Australia. It is an erect or spreading shrub or tree with narrowly lance-shaped to narrowly elliptic phyllodes, spikes of mid to deep yellow flowers and pods resembling a string of beads.
How to spot it
Acacia dallachiana is an erect or spreading shrub or tree that typically grows up to 15 m (49 ft) high and has smooth grey or greyish brown bark and glabrous branchlets. Its phyllodes are narrowly lance-shaped or narrowly elliptic, often with one side straight and the other convex, 80–180 mm (3.1–7.1 in) long and 10–35 mm (0.39–1.38 in) wide with a small gland 3–6 mm (0.12–0.24 in) above the base of the phyllode. The flowers are borne in usually two spikes up to 60 mm (2.4 in) long and often cur
Documented on these trails
Found in
- Mount Buffalo National Park — Gippsland & Alpine Victoria hikes