Sticky Wattle

About

Acacia howittii, commonly known as sticky wattle or Howitt's wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Victoria, Australia. It is a graceful shrub or small tree with pendulous branchlets, narrowly elliptic to lance-shaped phyllodes, spherical heads of pale lemon yellow flowers and narrowly oblong to linear, firmly papery to thinly leathery pods.

How to spot it

Acacia howittii is a graceful shrub or three that typically grows to a height of up to 9 m (30 ft) and it has slender, pendulous branchlets with hairy ribs. Its phyllodes are narrowly elliptic to lance-shaped, usually 15–25 mm (0.59–0.98 in) long, 4–8 mm (0.16–0.31 in) wide, dark green and glabrous with two or three veins on each face. The flowers are borne in one or two spherical heads in axils on peduncles 3–10 mm (0.12–0.39 in) long, each head with 12 to 20 pale lemon yellow flowers. Flowerin

Documented on these trails

Found in

• Mornington Peninsula National Park / Arthurs Seat State Park — Melbourne, the Dandenongs & Central Victoria hikes