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Acacia auriculiformis
Also called Ear-leaf Acacia, Akashmoni, Darwin Black Wattle, Black Wattle, Ear Pod Wattle, Northern Black Wattle, Common Acacia
In Singapore: Acacia-tree, Earleaf Acacia, Black Wattle, Wattle, Bunga Siam, Akasia Kuning, Yellow Wattle, Ear-pod Wattle, Northern Black Wattle, Papua Wattle, 大叶相思, 耳叶相思 (Grown in Singapore)
Earleaf acacia is a fast-growing tree native to northern Australia, New Guinea and nearby islands, typically 8 to 10 m tall, grown for shade, timber and soil stabilisation. Give it full sun and well-drained soil, and it establishes readily.
Acacia auriculiformis, commonly known as ear-pod wattle, northern black wattle or Darwin black wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is native to Maluku, New Guinea, the Northern Territory and Queensland. It is a tree with smooth bark, very narrowly elliptic phyllodes, spikes of bright yellow to golden-yellow flowers, and strongly curved to spirally coiled, leathery to woody pods up to 80 mm (3.1 in) long.
Ear-pod wattle grows in sandy or loamy soils near watercourses and swamps in open forest on Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, the north of the Northern Territory, the Central and Western Provinces of New Guinea, and the Kei Islands of Indonesia. It is also recorded as naturalised in Western Australia.
Extracts of Acacia auriculiformis heartwood inhibit fungi that attack wood. Aqueous extracts of A. auriculiformis show developmental inhibitory effects on Bactrocera cucurbitae (the melon fly).
Jam wattle · Mulga · Acacia aneura var. major · Mulga · Cootamundra wattle · Gidgee · Bower wattle · Cole's Wattle · Small Philippine acacia · Knife acacia · Silver Wattle · Graceful wattle
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia auriculiformis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
