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Acacia fulva
Also called Velvet Wattle
Acacia fulva, known colloquially as velvet wattle or soft wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to New South Wales, Australia. It is an erect shrub or tree with silvery greyish, bipinnate leaves, spherical heads of bright yellow flowers and straight to slightly curved, thickly leathery pods, barely to slightly constricted between the seeds.
Velvet wattle grows on soils derived from sandstone and basalt in woodland, from Gloucester Buckets, Apple Tree Flat in the Hunter Region, Hayes Creek (near Bulga) and Mount Yengo. It is associated with such species as forest red gum (Eucalyptus tereticornis), grey box (E. moluccana), and narrow-leaved ironbark (E. crebra), and shrubs such as dogwood (Jacksonia scoparia), Exocarpus, Clerodendrum, Clematis and Senecio.
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 fulva 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.
