Needlebush Wattle
Buds
Needlebush Wattle
Flowers & Phyllodes
| Needlebush Wattle Buds | | Needlebush Wattle Flowers & Phyllodes | | ||
 | Class: | Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida) - Shrubs & Bushes | |||
| Order: | Legumes (Fabales) | ||||
| Family: | Legume (Fabaceae or Leguminosae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Needlebush Wattle (Acacia rigens) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍Buds Opening🔎 | ||||
| Other name: | Nealie | ||||
Thank you 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 Measured phyllode ~60mm; with veins, not sharp or spiny. ~700mm high. This one is quite young and very well hidden. Maybe ~5 years old? Which would be interesting as it would have germinated in the severe 3 drought period. It's very rare for us to find a new bush species on Ellura, so finding this the other day was a huge surprise. As such, we are making this our We have a lot of Senna artemisioides ssp. filifolia around; and without any flowers this could easily be mistaken for that (particularly because we weren't expecting a new species). But now it's started flowering, it's clearly a different species. We suspect it's the 1st time it's flowered ... else we should have seen it before. | |||||
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