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Acacia floribunda
Also called Sally Wattle, Catkin Wattle, River Wattle, White Sallow, White Sallow Wattle, White Sally
Acacia floribunda, commonly known as white sally wattle, gossamer wattle, river wattle or white-sallow wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a spreading shrub or tree with often pendulous branches covered with soft hairs, linear to narrowly lance-shaped phyllodes, spikes of pale yellow to more or less white flowers and straight to strongly curved, firmly papery pods.
In landscaping, Acacia floribunda is very useful for controlling erosion, especially in gullies. It is also useful as a hedge or screen plant. It can be propagated from scarified seed or treatment with boiling water.
The phyllodes, twigs and bark of this species contains the compound NN-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) (0.4-0.5%) and other substituted tryptamines.
White sally wattle is widespread in forests and woodland from Stanthorpe, Mount Barney and Tambourine Mountain in south-eastern Queensland through New South Wales to Briagolong in eastern Victoria with an isolated occurrence at Nambour. It mainly grows in coastal sclerophyll communities, often in sandy soil, and is common along the banks of streams. It is naturalised in other places in Victoria and Tasmania and possibly the Australian Capital Territory.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia floribunda 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.
