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blue wattle, silver wattle

ever blooming acacia, ever-blooming wattle, swamp wattle, water wattle

Habit Shrubs or trees, erect, to 30 m. Twigs dark purplish brown to black, slightly flexuous, ridged, pruinose, densely puberulent. Shrubs or small trees, erect, to 10 m, often spreading by root suckers.
Twigs

reddish brown, not flexuous, ridged, glabrous.

Leaves

compound, 80–170 mm;

petiole 8–22 mm, densely puberulent, gland present, below proximalmost pinna pair, 0.5–1 mm diam., puberulent;

rachis gland between most pinna pairs;

pinnae 6–30 pairs, 15–55 mm, 2–7 mm between pinna pairs;

leaflets 15–70 pairs per pinna, blades linear, 2–5 × 0.4–0.8 mm, base cuneate, apex obtuse to acute, not apiculate, surfaces densely puberulent.

phyllodic;

phyllode flat, slightly falcate, linear-lanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, 30–200 × 3–14 mm, venation pinnate, midvein medial, minor veins not obvious, apex acuminate, apiculate, surfaces glabrous;

gland 1, 1–10 mm distal to pulvinus (not obvious, not disciform);

pulvinus 1–3 mm.

Inflorescences

globose heads, densely flowered, 6–9 mm diam., in axillary pseudoracemes of 11–30 heads or terminal pseudopanicles of 1–15 pseudoracemes.

globose heads, densely flowered, 5–7 mm diam., in solitary pseudoracemes of 5–9 heads in leaf axils.

Peduncles

2–6 mm.

2–5 mm.

Flowers

5-merous, pale yellow to cream;

calyx 0.6–1.1 mm;

corolla 1.4–2 mm;

filaments 3.5–4.5 mm;

ovary glabrous.

5-merous, pale yellow to cream;

calyx 0.5–0.9 mm;

corolla 1.2–1.7 mm;

filaments 2.5–3.5 mm;

ovary glabrous.

Legumes

flattened, oblong, 20–110 × 6–14 mm, constricted between some seeds.

flattened, linear, 40–160 × 4–7 mm, slightly constricted between seeds.

Seeds

aril light yellow, obovate, 2–3 mm, forming cap on seed.

aril light yellow, nearly encircling seed.

2n

= 26.

= 26.

Acacia dealbata

Acacia retinodes

Phenology Flowering winter, early spring. Flowering year-round.
Habitat Disturbed areas. Disturbed coastal habitats.
Elevation 0–300 m. (0–1000 ft.) 0–600 m. (0–2000 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; se Australia [Introduced in North America; introduced also in s South America]
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from FNA
CA; FL; se Australia [Introduced in North America]
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Discussion

Acacia dealbata is known from Butte, Los Angeles, Marin, Monterey, Napa, Riverside, Sacramento, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San Bernardino, and San Diego counties.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Acacia retinodes is known from Los Angeles, Marin, Orange, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Barbara counties in California, and from Glades and Monroe counties in Florida.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 11. FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Caesalpinioideae (Mimosoid clade) > Acacia Fabaceae > subfam. Caesalpinioideae (Mimosoid clade) > Acacia
Sibling taxa
A. auriculiformis, A. baileyana, A. cultriformis, A. cyclops, A. decurrens, A. longifolia, A. mearnsii, A. melanoxylon, A. paradoxa, A. pycnantha, A. redolens, A. retinodes, A. saligna, A. verticillata
A. auriculiformis, A. baileyana, A. cultriformis, A. cyclops, A. dealbata, A. decurrens, A. longifolia, A. mearnsii, A. melanoxylon, A. paradoxa, A. pycnantha, A. redolens, A. saligna, A. verticillata
Name authority Link: Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. 2: 445. (1822) Schlechtendal: Linnaea 20: 664. (1847)
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