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Hop Leaf Wattle

Acacia dodonaeifolia

Also called Sticky Wattle

Hop Leaf Wattle
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Fabaceae (Pea & bean family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Native range
SE. South Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Acacia dodonaeifolia, commonly known as sticky wattle or hop bush wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-east of continental Australia. It is a sticky glabrous shrub or tree narrowly elliptic phyllodes, spherical heads of bright yellow flowers and linear, thinly leathery pods.

Where it grows

Sticky wattle usually grows in sand or loam in Eucalyptus woodland in open forest in scattered locations from the Eyre Peninsula to Naracoorte and Keith in South Australia and the west of Victoria.

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 dodonaeifolia 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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