Acacia vestita

Hairy Wattle at Aranda, ACT

Acacia vestita at Aranda, ACT - 25 Mar 2020
Acacia vestita at Aranda, ACT - 25 Mar 2020
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Identification history

Acacia vestita 28 Mar 2020 MichaelMulvaney
Acacia vestita 25 Mar 2020 rhyshardy

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One small 1-2m tall shrub. Soft small fingernail sized leaves on weeping branches. Five other smaller <1m tall shrubs of same variety within vicinity of the photographed shrub.

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JackieMiles wrote:
   29 Mar 2020
Phyllode shape and weeping habit look right for vestita (with which I am familiar as there is a naturalised population in Bega). I can't find anything in the Flora of NSW that looks as likely as vestita.

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Additional information

  • 1 metre to 5 metres Plant height

Species information

  • Acacia vestita Scientific name
  • Hairy Wattle Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Non-local native
  • Minor weed or pest
  • Up to 807.32m Recorded at altitude
  • Machine learning
  • In flower

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