Acacia pycnantha

Golden Wattle at Majura, ACT

Acacia pycnantha at Majura, ACT - 15 Aug 2016
Acacia pycnantha at Majura, ACT - 15 Aug 2016
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Acacia pycnantha 20 Oct 2016 MichaelMulvaney
Acacia rubida 15 Aug 2016 SilkeSma

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6 comments

   27 Aug 2016
Where there any bipinnate leaves left on this shrub?
SilkeSma wrote:
   28 Aug 2016
Not quite sure. I'll go and have another look
SilkeSma wrote:
   29 Aug 2016
No, there aren't any bipinnate leaves on it. Actually I had another look and it is a large tree that has blown over recently. It was probably 6-8m high when it stood upright. Does A. rubida lose the bipinnate leaves at that age? The upper branches were certainly intensely red.
waltraud wrote:
   29 Aug 2016
Silke, A. rubida can grow large however I haven't seen one taller than 3m on Mt Majura. The only other wattle species that i know of Mts Majura/Ainslie that looks similar to A. rubida (shape of phyllode and one main middle vein, globular flower-heads in racemes) and that flowers around this time of the year is the Golden Wattle A pycnantha, a garden escape.
   21 Oct 2016
Waltraud - Golden Wattle is local to Mt ainslie
waltraud wrote:
   23 Oct 2016
Oups, somehow I mixed the common names up - i'm currently removing lots of exotic Sydney Golden Wattle, Acacia longifolia which is the exotic and looks very different to A pycantha. Sorry for the confusion.

Thanks for pointing out Michael.

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