Acacia pycnantha

Golden Wattle at Chisholm, ACT

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Identification history

Acacia pycnantha	13 Sep 2017	BettyDonWood
Acacia pycnantha	13 Sep 2017	BettyDonWood
Unidentified	12 Sep 2017	MichaelBedingfield

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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.

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.

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

13 Sep 2017

Thanks Betty

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