Silver Wattle
Acacia dealbata · Fabaceae · 미모사아카시아
Look
- Leaves
- Bipinnate leaves are blue-gray to silvery white (sometimes green), with 6 to 30 pairs of pinnae (1 to 12 cm long), each bearing 10 to 68 pairs of leaflets (0.7 to 6 mm long, 0.4 to 1 mm wide).
- Flowers
- Yellow to bright yellow globose flower heads (4 to 7.5 mm across) of 17 to 35 flowers form panicles or racemes at the twig tips or leaf axils. Flowers July to November.
- Fruit
- Pods are straight or slightly curved, nearly flat, 2 to 11.5 cm long and 6 to 14 mm wide, thinly leathery.
- Bark
- Bark is gray, gray-green to nearly black and deeply fissured on old trees. Young twigs are ridged and covered with hairs and bloom.
Where it grows
- Native to
- Native to New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania, mainly on slopes and creek sides in dry sclerophyll forest and woodland.
- Ecology
- Regenerates vigorously after fire and forms dense thickets triggered by fire.