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Coast Wattle

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Scientific Name:Acacia longifolia var. sophorae
Coast Wattle growth on sand dunes
Coast Wattle growth on sand dunes
Photo: A J Brown

Status:
Native to Australia.

Plant Description:
A dense spreading shrub to 3 m tall with flat green oblong-lanceolate, phyllodes (flattened stems that appear leaf-like), 6-12 cm long and 15-30 mm wide with 2-5 prominent longitudinal veins.

Flowers are yellow and in spikes about 3 cm long, often solitary or sometimes twinned and without stalks or very shortly stalked. Fruit is a pale brown, curved and twisted pod to 15 cm long and 8 mm wide, with a beak. Seeds are black, shining and 4 mm long.

Habitat:
Coastal dunes along most of the coastline. Often showing wind-pruned effects in growth habit.

Comments:
Coast Wattle is a variety of Sallow Wattle which is a small tree of eastern Victoria and southern New South Wales but commonly grown in home gardens. Sallow Wattle typically has longer phyllodes than Coast Wattle.

Coast Wattle Photos

Coast Wattle leaves
Coast Wattle leaves
Photo: A J Brown
Coast Wattle buds
Close-up of flower shoots of Coast Wattle flower-bud
Photo: A J Brown

Flower buds of Coast Wattle
Flower buds of Coast Wattle
Photo: A J Brown

Flowering Coast Wattle
Flowering Coast Wattle
Photo: A J Brown

Coast Wattle flowers
Coast Wattle flowers
Photo: A J Brown

Coast Wattle seed pods
Coast Wattle seed pods
Photo: A J Brown

Coast Wattle seeds
Coast Wattle seeds
Photo: A J Brown
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