Botanical Name: Acacia longifolia (Acacia latifolia)
Common Name: Sydney golden wattle
Type of Plant: dicot: tree/shrub
Character evergreen
 
Habit of Growth:
Overall Shape an upright to spreading, mostly single-trunked plant, with arching and spreading branches forming a dense rounded canopy; outer branches are sometimes pendulous
Height 10-20' (30')
Spread equal
Growth Rate rapid
 
Environment:
Exposure outdoors full or partial sun
Soil well-draining soils are established; avoid wet adobe
Hardiness some frost (zones 8, 9, 14-24); grows best in warm sun
 
Morphology:
Leaves phyllodes: alternate, narrowly elliptic or oval; 3-6" long, bright green, leathery
Flowers yellow, tiny, in 2-3" long spikes; axillary; March-June
Fruit a pod: 3-5" long; not strongly constricted between seeds
 
Propagation:
semihardwood cuttings, seed
 
Usage:
a very widely used plant, suitable as a fast-growing background mass or screen; for erosion control on slopes; easily pruned
 
Landscape Care:
Watering an occasional deep soak; becomes fairly drought-tolerant; very susceptible to over-watering
Fertilizing balanced, in spring and late summer
Pruning as a shrub, very little as a tree, head high when young
Pests/Diseases relatively free
Special Conditions/Other
 
Origin: Eastern Australia
Family: Fabaceae

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