Family: Fabaceae-Mimosoideae
Plant: An erect shrub or small tree up to 3m high with a smooth or finely-fissured bark and spreading branches often with angular and reddish stems.
Flowers: Terminal heads of 6-15 relatively large globular bright cream to golden flowers. These are borne in loose racemes up to 8cm long.
Flowering: March-July.
Fruit: Dark reddish-brown oblong pod 3-11cm long and 8-14mm wide with thickened margins.
Leaves: Bipinnate with pinnae 3-8cm long and pinnules up to 2cm long and 1-1.5mm wide. 8 to16 pairs of leaflets that are dark green above and paler below.
Habitat: Dry sclerophyll forest and heathland on sandy soils.
Features: Leaves bipinnate. Globular golden flowers. Dark reddish-brown straight pods. Branchlets often reddish in colour.
Name:
Acacia From Greek akis = a sharp point because of the thorns on Acacia arabica, a species known from antiquity.
terminalis From Latin terminalis = terminal (referring to the heads of its flowers being terminal).
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Type |
Shrub, Tree |
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Flowers |
Form |
Cluster, Globular |
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Colour(s) |
Cream, Yellow |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
- |
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Flowering Month |
3,4,5,6,7 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Pod |
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Colour |
Red, Brown |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate |
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Type |
Compound |
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Shape |
Linear |
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Length |
Medium |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Stalked |
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Other Features |
Discolorous |
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Bark |
Smooth, Rough/Furrowed |
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Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
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