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Acacia decora
Also called Pretty Wattle, Showy Wattle, Western Silver Wattle
Graceful wattle is a hardy Australian shrub, typically 1 to 3 m tall, grown for its silvery-green phyllodes and spherical golden-yellow flower heads. It is adaptable and does best in well drained soil in full sun or partial shade.
Acacia decora, commonly known as western silver wattle and showy wattle and other common names, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub with lance-shaped, narrowly elliptic or more or less linear phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers and papery to leathery pods.
Acacia decora is a hardy species which can tolerate a wide range of conditions. It grows best in well drained soils and in a full sun to partly shady position. It can be grown from seed but must be pretreated by scarification or with boiling water.
Western silver wattle is found down the east coast of Australia extending from the Palmer River area in north Queensland, through New South Wales to Victoria. In New South Wales, A. decora is widespread through the central part of the state and west to the Cobar district. It commonly grows on rocky ridges or oucrops in Eucalyptus communities, sometimes as pure stands. In Victoria it is only known from around Dookie and Thoona and near Wodonga where it is restricted to roadsides and remnants of open woodland along railway lines.
Jam wattle · Mulga · Acacia aneura var. major · Mulga · Earleaf acacia · Cootamundra wattle · Gidgee · Bower wattle · Cole's Wattle · Small Philippine acacia · Knife acacia · Silver Wattle
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia decora 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.
