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Blue Bush

Acacia covenyi

Blue Bush
Photo: Unknown author, GFDL 1.2
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Native range
SE. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia covenyi, commonly known as blue bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of New South Wales, Australia. It is a glabrous shrub or tree with crowded, narrowly oblong phyllodes, flowers arranged in spherical heads of bright yellow flowers and papery to thinly leathery, narrowly oblong pods.

Where it grows

Blue bush grows in thickets, mainly on limestone slopes and ridges, but sometimes on quartzite, and is restricted to the eastern hills of the Great Dividing Range from near the Deua River to near the Kybeyan River.

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 covenyi 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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