Large shrub up to 8 m tall.
Light green phyllodes (flattened leaf stalks) 14 - 2 0cm long and 2 - 3 cm wide. Several longitudinal veins.
Bright yellow flowers arranged forming elongate clusters.
Elongate pods 4 - 150 mm long, cylindrical in shape with a pointed tip. Green in colour but turn brown as they mature. Each pod contains 4 black seeds.
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First fully open single flower
Full flowering (record all days)
End of flowering (when 95% of the flowers have faded)
No flowering
Fruiting/seed pods
Coastal Wattle (Acacia sophorae) is a smaller shrub growing 0.5 - 3 m tall with shorter, broad leaves(4 - 12 cm long and 10-35 mm wide) that are less flexible. The leaves are wider at or above the middle.
Stiff-leaved Wattle (Acacia obtusifolia) has resinous leaf margins, paler flower heads and more rounded leaf tips. Also flowers later in the year, December to February.
