Acacia rubida

Red-stemmed Wattle, Red-leaved Wattle at Hackett, ACT

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	Acacia rubida	29 Jul 2023	Tapirlord
	Unidentified	29 Jul 2023	waltraud

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Foliage entirely bipinnate, stem redish. I took a series of photos of wattles at a relative small area which I will present on CNM - none fits a wattle or hybrid that I know. There are specimens over one m tall with all leaves bipinnate and there are specimens which have mainly bipinnate leaves plus a few phyllodes; none of the observed wattles have the juvenile foliage I know of, for instance, Acacia rubida with bipinnate leave (bits) persisting with phyllodes. In the vicinity we have / had bipinnate Wattles: Acacia baileyana, dealbata, their hybrids, and decurrens; and wattles with phyllodes: A. floribunda, implexa, longifolia, melanoxylon, rubida (a group of the latter was most likely planted). I will copy this comment in the other wattle records of the site.

3 comments

abread111 wrote:

29 Jul 2023

could it just be young A. rubida, not yet transitioning to phyllodes?

waltraud wrote:

29 Jul 2023

there are A. rubida in vicinity. However there is a group of up to 1.5 m tall wattles with bipinnate leaves only, some of bright green colour some with a red tinge, all with redish stems. I haven't seen those before. I've seen young Acacia rubida which have the bipinnate leaf tissue on some pyllodes to various degrees but I haven't seen whole plant with bipinnate leaves only or bipinnate mostly ...

abread111 wrote:

29 Jul 2023

I have seen young plants with bipinnate leaves only - the ones planted at the local microforest grew quite tall before they started to develop phyllodes.

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