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SILVER WATTLE FACTS |
Map is from The Atlas of Living Australia web site, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
Common Name
Silver Wattle
Other Names
Blue Wattle, Mimosa
Description
The Silver Wattle is a tree or shrub growing up to 20 m tall or more. The leaves are fern-like (bipinnate). They are blue-green to silvery grey in colour, growing to about 12 cm or more in length and up to 11 cm wide. The individual leaflets are up to 6 mm long and 1 mm wide. The bright yellow flowers are produced in large sprays made up of numerous smaller flower heads. Each flower head may have up to about 40 individual flowers. The seed pod is flat, growing up to about 11 cm long and 14 mm wide.
Habitat
Grows in open woodlands, dry sclerophyll forests , where it can be found in gullies, on slopes, creek banks and near edges of swamps.
Distribution
Silver Wattle is native to eastern New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, most of Victoria and throughout Tasmania. On the mainland it is most common near the Great Dividing Range from northern New South Wales to the Grampians in western Victoria. It has also naturalised overseas in New Zealand, southern Africa, southern India, southern Europe, and south-western USA
Growth Characteristics
Height: 6m - 20m
Spread: 5m - 10m
Propagation
scarified seed
Wildlife Interest
attracts seed-eating and insect-eating birds
Classification
| Class: | Magnoliopsida | | Order: | Fabales | | Family: | Mimosaceae | | Genus: | Acacia | | Species: | dealbata | | Common Name: | Silver Wattle |
Relatives in same Genus
Acacia acanthoclada
Acacia acinacea
Acacia acradenia
Acacia aculeatissima
Acacia alata
Acacia amblygona
Acacia amoena
Acacia aneura
Acacia aulacocarpa
Acacia auriculiformis
Acacia baileyana
Acacia beckleri
Acacia boormanii
Acacia brachybotrya
Acacia brachystachya
Acacia buxifolia
Acacia caesiella
Acacia calamifolia
Acacia cardiophylla
Acacia chrysocephala
Acacia cognata
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