The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Acacia complanata
Also called Long Pod Wattle, Flat Stem Wattle
Acacia complanata, commonly known as flat-stemmed wattle, long-pod wattle or donkey's ears, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub or tree with branches arching downwards, narrowly winged branchlets, narrowly linear, thinly leathery phyllodes, spherical heads of bright yellow flowers and linear, thinly leathery to crusty, wrinkled pods.
This species of wattle is an ideal suburban garden species, rewarding the gardener with flowers several times a year. It can be pruned to a desired shape and recovers from fire from a lignotuber. It is easily propagated from seed, following treatment by soaking in boiling water or by scarification.
Flat-stemmed wattle is widely distributed throughout south-eastern Queensland from around Jericho in the west to around Bundaberg in the east and is also found as far southwest as the Dumaresq River in New South Wales and down the north coast to around Coffs Harbour, New South Wales. It is grows on low ridges in gravelly, sandy to loamy soils, often over sandstone, and usually in heathland or dry sclerophyll forest. It also occurs in a disjunct population near Torrington.
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 complanata 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.
