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Acacia acinacea
Also called Gold Dust Wattle, Round Leaf Wattle
Acacia acinacea, commonly known as gold dust wattle, wreath wattle or round-leaf wattle. is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is a bushy or straggling shrub with asymmetric, narrowly oblong to broadly egg-shaped phyllodes with the narrower end towards the base, flowers arranged in a spherical heads 4.0–4.5 mm (0.16–0.18 in) in diameter with 8 to 20 flowers, and a spirally coiled to twisted pods up to 3.0–4.5 mm (0.12–0.18 in) long.
Gold dust wattle is widespread from near Melrose in South Australia, including in the Mount Lofty Ranges, Kangaroo Island and southern Flinders Ranges, throughout most of Victoria, and south from the Gilgandra district in New South Wales. It is often found in hilly country and grows well in sand, sandy loam and gravelly soils as a part of Eucalyptus woodlands, woodland heath and open mallee scrubland communities.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia acinacea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
