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

Pods and 'leaves'. Photographer Ethel Aardvark, unknown place

Tree. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Denise Grieg, Olive Pink Garden, Alice Springs, NT

Tree. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, Adelaide Botanic Gardens, SA

Bark. Photographer Don Carlson, unknown place

Common Name

Cooba, Broughton Willow, Doolan, Native Wattle, Willow Wattle

Family

Fabaceae

Notes

Shrub or tree to 20m tall. 'Leaves' alternating up the stems, 4-20cm long, 4-30mm wide, linear to flat, hairless, sometimes glaucous, usually with a straight or curved pointed tip.  Flower heads spherical, white or cream to pale yellow, in 2-8 headed racemes, the stalks arisng 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 pages 371-372

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

World Wide Wattle line drawings and photos:  http://www.worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=s&id=23817&o=1