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

Old pods and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Young tree. Photographer Don Wood, Carnarvon Station Bush Heritage Reserve, via Augathella, Qld

Old tree. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, Oolambeyan National Park E of  Hay, NSW

Common Name

Weeping Myall, Boree, Myall, Balaar, Nilyah, Silver-leaf Boree, True Myall

Family

Fabaceae

Notes

Tree to 13m tall. ‘Leaves’ alternating up the stems, 4-14cm long, 3-10mm wide, flat, hairy becoming hairless, more or less glaucous, tips usually with somewhat curved points. Flower heads globular, yellow, in 2-7 headed racemes, the stalks arisng from the bases of the 'leaves'. Vulnerable SA. Endangered Vic. Threatened list Vic.

Description and photos in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 369

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

World Wide Wattle line drawings and photos:  http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=p&id=20586&o=1