Acacia floribunda

Whanganui. Aug 2012.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Phyllode base lacking gland. Whanganui. Aug 2012.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

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Common name

gossamer wattle

Family

Fabaceae

Authority

Acacia floribunda (Vent.) Willd.

Flora category

Vascular – Exotic

Structural class

Trees & Shrubs - Dicotyledons

Habitat

Roadside banks and waste places

Features

Shrub to small tree, with sharply angled twigs. Leaves reduced to phyllodes. Phyllodes linear and up to 120 x 10 mm, usually with 3 prominent veins. Inflorescence is a spike of numerous pale yellow clusters. Seed pod is somewhat curved up to 100 x 4 mm.

Similar taxa

The long thin phyllodes and flowers in spikes separates A. floribunda from all other naturalised Acacia.

Flowering

August, September

Flower colours

Cream, Yellow

Year naturalised

1981

Origin

E. Australia

Etymology

acacia: Derived from Greek ‘akazo’ to sharpen, meaning point; spine or thorn.

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