Family: Fabaceae-Mimosoideae
Plant: A slender prostrate to erect shrub up to 1.5m high with angular or flattened stems.
Flowers: Globular heads of pale yellow to creamy-white perfumed flowers in short racemes with 5-10 flowerheads per axil.
Flowering: March-August.
Fruit: Pod 2-5cm long and 1-2cm wide, glaucous, greyish in colour. The young pods can sometimes be a reddish colour.
Leaves: Phyllode, narrow linear, blue green, 5-15cm long and 2-10mm wide. Stiff with a prominent mid-vein ending in a small point. New leaves pink.
Habitat: Dry sclerophyll forest and heathland on sandy soils.
Features: Flowers perfumed. Seeds are transversely arranged. Phyllodes are stiff. Pods glaucous dull blue-green. Angular branchlets often reddish in colour as are the young leaves and often the pods.
Name:
Acacia From Greek akis = a sharp point because of the thorns on Acacia arabica, a species known from antiquity.
suaveolens From Latin suaveolens = sweet-smelling (referring to its perfumed flowers).
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Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Globular, Cluster |
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Colour(s) |
Cream, Yellow |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
- |
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Flowering Month |
3,4,5,6,7,8 |
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Fruit |
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Pod |
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Colour |
Grey, Blue, Green, Red |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Linear |
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Length |
Medium |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Unstalked |
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Other Features |
Oil dots/Glands |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
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