Flowers and 'leaves'. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Flowers and 'leaves'. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, near Lameroo, SA

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, near Lameroo, SA

Common Name

Manna Wattle

Family

Fabaceae

Notes

Shrub to 3m tall. 'Leaves' alternating up the branches, 2-7cm long, 4-10mm wide, flat, hairless, slightly hairy when young, tips blunt or notched, or with a curved point. Flower heads yellow, globular, single, the stalks arising from the bases of the 'leaves'.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 367.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~microcarpa

World Wide Wattle line drawings and photos:  http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=m&id=23739&o=1