Olive Pink Botanic Garden
OPBG FloraBean Tree Bush Hibiscus Bush Plum Caper Bush / Wild Passionfruit Dead Finish Ghost Gum Heart-leaved Frankenia Krichauff Ranges Fuchsia Mulga Needlewood Pink Fire-bush Potato Bush Prickly Wattle Red-Bud Mallee Shrubby Fox-tail (Ptilotus whitei) Sticky Hopbush (Dodonaea viscosa) Sturt’s Desert Rose Tall Saltbush Wild Tomato Wire-Leaf Mistletoe
The Prickly Wattle (Acacia stipulosa) is a small prickly shrub with cylindrical branchlets, green to dark green triangular shaped leaves, golden pom-pom like flowers and large furry seed pods.
Seen here in Olive Pink Botanic Garden, they grow up to 2 metres tall and are found in stony or sandy, well-drained soil.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Clade: Tracheophytes
- Clade: Angiosperms
- Clade: Eudicots
- Clade: Rosids
- Order: Fabales
- Family: Fabaceae
- Subfamily: Caesalpinioideae
- Clade: Mimosoid clade
- Genus: Acacia
- Species: Acacia stipulosa
Footnote & References
- Includes Acacia stipulosa, Flora of Australia Volume 11B (2001) figure 26, Australian Plant Image Index, Australian National Botanic Gardens, https://www.anbg.gov.au/photo/apii/id/foa/106
- Acacia stipulosa F.Muell., Wattle, Acacias of Australia, Lucid Apps – Lucidcentral, https://apps.lucidcentral.org/wattle/text/entities/acacia_stipulosa.htm
- Acacia stipulosa, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acacia_stipulosa (last visited Aug. 23, 2022)
OPBG FloraBean Tree Bush Hibiscus Bush Plum Caper Bush / Wild Passionfruit Dead Finish Ghost Gum Heart-leaved Frankenia Krichauff Ranges Fuchsia Mulga Needlewood Pink Fire-bush Potato Bush Prickly Wattle Red-Bud Mallee Shrubby Fox-tail (Ptilotus whitei) Sticky Hopbush (Dodonaea viscosa) Sturt’s Desert Rose Tall Saltbush Wild Tomato Wire-Leaf Mistletoe