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Daintree Wattle

Acacia cincinnata

Also called Circle Fruit Salwood

Daintree Wattle
Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Water
Likes moisture
Native range
E. & SE. Queensland
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Acacia cincinnata, commonly known as Daintree wattle or circle fruit salwood, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to Queensland, Australia. It is a large shrub or tree with furrowed flaky bark, hairy branchlets, very narrowly elliptic phyllodes, spikes of creamy yellow flowers and tightly, spirally coiled, leathery pods.

Where it grows

This species of wattle is endemic to Queensland where it is found near the margins of rainforest in damper parts of the Atherton Tableland, the adjacent coast, the Eungella Range and the high rainfall areas between Maryborough and Brisbane, often in sandy soils over granite.

Other Acacia plants

Acacia abbatiana · Acacia abbreviata · Acacia abrupta · Acacia acanthaster · Harrow Wattle · Acacia acellerata · Gold-dust acacia · Acacia aciphylla · Acacia acoma · Acacia acradenia · Strap Leaved Wattle · Acacia acuaria

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia cincinnata 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.

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