Needlebush Wattle
Flowers & Phyllodes
Hard-leaf Wattle
Masses of New Buds
| Needlebush Wattle Flowers & Phyllodes | | Hard-leaf Wattle Masses of New Buds | | ||
 | Class: | Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida) | |||
| Order: | Legumes (Fabales) | ||||
| Family: | Legume (Fabaceae or Leguminosae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Hard-leaf Wattle (Acacia sclerophylla var sclerophylla) | ||||
| This Photo: | Bush | ||||
Thank you Alan Dandie (Alan_Dandie) & Tony and Jenny Dominelli for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Riverland and elsewhere Similar to A. hakeoides, but the leaves are much narrower, with a pointy tip. At the tip, the leaf dries to a hard black/grey point. Leaves don't have the yellow edge, but are strongly veined / striped. Generally the bushes are shorter and more sprawling than the Hakea Wattle. When in flower the bush looks like a mass of upright flower stems, whereas the Hakea tends to look like a big, wide, yellow ball. The seeds are held in the pods with a white cup. There is no cup holding the seed in the Hakea Wattle. | |||||
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