Sweet Wattle

Acacia suaveolens

"Acacia suaveolens" is a shrub species endemic to Australia. It grows to between 0.3 and 3.5 metres high and has smooth purplish-brown or light green bark and has straight or slightly curving blue-green phyllodes The pale yellow to near white globular flower heads generally appear between April and September in its native range.
Sweet wattle - Acacia suaveolens Seed capsules Acacia suaveolens,Australia,Geotagged,Spring,suaveolens

Appearance

These are followed by flattened, bluish oblong pods which are up to 2 to 5 cm long and 8 to 19 mm wide.
Acacia suaveolens, Fabaceae, Sweet-scented Wattle Acacia suaveolens is a slender, sparingly branched shrub that is usually 1–3 m high. This is a widespread species that occurs in coastal and near-coastal areas from Bustard Bay area, Queensland, south through New South Wales to Cape Otway, Victoria. It also extends from Casterton to near Penola, South Australia, Tasmania, and some Bass Strait islands. Plants grows in sand or on sandstone, usually in heath or woodland. Acacia suaveolens,Australia,Geotagged,Sweet wattle,Winter

Naming

The species was first formally described by English botanist James Edward Smith in 1791 in "Transactions of the Linnean Society of London" He described it with reference to a cultivated plant at Syon House which had been raised by Thomas Hoy from seed that originated from New South Wales. The species was transferred into the genus "Acacia" by Carl Ludwig Willdenow in 1806.
Wattle I Do - Sweet scented wattle Acacia suaveolens,Australia,Geotagged,Winter

Distribution

The species occurs naturally on sandy soils in heathland and dry sclerophyll forest in South Australia and Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales and Queensland.

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Taxonomy
KingdomPlantae
DivisionAngiosperms
ClassEudicots
OrderFabales
FamilyFabaceae
GenusAcacia
SpeciesA. suaveolens
Photographed in
Australia