1 Box-leaf Wattle at Red Hill, ACT
Identification history
| Acacia buxifolia | 6 Sep 2022 | Tapirlord | ||
| Unidentified | 27 Nov 2021 | JaneR |
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User's notes
two patches, close to each other: one much younger and smaller plants
a garden escapee ? doesn't seem to match anything in the CNM Field Guide
7 comments
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
28 Nov 2021
Can you please give an estimate as to the width and length of the leaves and width of the pod?
JaneR
wrote:
28 Nov 2021
Will try to get back there to-day for actual measurements: not confident that estimates from memory would be reliable.
JaneR
wrote:
28 Nov 2021
Pod width is 11-12 mm.
Leaves are quite variable:
In the main photo (of a bush without pods), leaves are 20-21 mm long (max) ad about 16 mm wide at mix point. But on the bushes branches heavy with pods, the leaves are quite a bit smaller, only 7-8 mm long, and about 4-5 mm wide. The very young leaves have a reddish tinge.
leaves are slightly assymetrical: there is a faint main vein, which is not central. There is a gland very close to the petiole, on adaxial margin. (It doesn't work if I try to add these to the above set of photos, so will e-mail you separately).
Leaves are quite variable:
In the main photo (of a bush without pods), leaves are 20-21 mm long (max) ad about 16 mm wide at mix point. But on the bushes branches heavy with pods, the leaves are quite a bit smaller, only 7-8 mm long, and about 4-5 mm wide. The very young leaves have a reddish tinge.
leaves are slightly assymetrical: there is a faint main vein, which is not central. There is a gland very close to the petiole, on adaxial margin. (It doesn't work if I try to add these to the above set of photos, so will e-mail you separately).
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
28 Nov 2021
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
7 Sep 2022
Ciaran - the pods seem to wide for Acacia buxifolia, but perhaps your right?
Tapirlord
wrote:
7 Sep 2022
I encoutered these wattles myself on a walk a couple of weeks ago, I thought they looked unusual so I sent the pictures I took to someone from my ever growing list of contacts who has helped me with wattle IDs in the past. He was happy to call these A.buxifolia, but said that he wasn't sure which subsp they might be. I think these were planted orginally, but now appear to be self-seeding, so they are probably unlikely to be the A.buxifolia that we have locally.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.127748-35.347189
- Altitude 651.8m
- Places Red Hill, ACT
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 27 Nov 2021 03:25 PM Recorded on
- JaneR Recorded by
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- 1 metre to 5 metres Plant height
Species information
- Acacia buxifolia subsp. buxifolia Scientific name
- Box-leaf Wattle Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-Invasive
- Up to 1776.8m Recorded at altitude
- 209 images trained Machine learning
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