Golden Wattle at Chisholm, ACT
Identification history
| Acacia pycnantha | 13 Sep 2017 | BettyDonWood | ||
| Acacia pycnantha | 13 Sep 2017 | BettyDonWood | ||
| Unidentified | 12 Sep 2017 | MichaelBedingfield |
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User's notes
A spindly looking large shrub or small tree............ growing beside the Old Tuggeranong Road, near the Tuggeranong Pine Plantation.
6 comments
BettyDonWood
wrote:
12 Sep 2017
You could try IDing it using wattle2 http://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/v3/wattle2/
Otherwise, could you give me leaf length and width and number of flowers per flower head and I will give it a go.
Otherwise, could you give me leaf length and width and number of flowers per flower head and I will give it a go.
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
13 Sep 2017
The leaf in the 3rd photo was 110mm long including the leaf stem, and was 18mm wide at the widest part. That was one of the largest leaves of my sample branch. The maximum number of flower globes on the flower stems was 18 on several of the longest ones, the minimum number was 5. The tree was spindly looking and 5-6 m tall.
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
13 Sep 2017
Mike was the stem of the plant whitish? Looks like Golden Wattle Acacia pycnantha
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
13 Sep 2017
The finer, newer stems were pale green, but some of the older stems has a whitish colouring mixed with the brown.
BettyDonWood
wrote:
13 Sep 2017
The comment in Wattle is that 'plants with pruinose (waxy) branchlets are scattered throughout the range'. That suggests to me that not having that character does not matter.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.132114-35.431526
- Altitude 730.0m
- Places Chisholm, ACT
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 6 Sep 2017 10:01 AM Recorded on
- MichaelBedingfield Recorded by
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Plants Wattles MichaelBedingfield Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- True In flower
- Greater than 5 metres Plant height
Species information
- Acacia pycnantha Scientific name
- Golden Wattle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 760m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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In flower
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