Acacia podalyriifolia A.Cunn.

  • Authority

    Isley, Duane. 1973. Leguminosae of the United States: I. Subfamily. Mimosoideae. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 25 (1): 1-152.

  • Family

    Mimosaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Acacia podalyriifolia A.Cunn. ex G.Don

  • Description

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    Species Description - Small unarmed tree with villosulous twigs and young leaves, often with pendulous lower branches. Leaves simple, subsessile, ovate, 2.5-4 cm long, 1.5-2 cm wide, uninerved, glaucous-cinerous or becoming green in age; with a curved muero; gland not discernible. Flowers in yellow heads ca 6 mm diam in axillary racemes that much exceed leaves and terminal compound racemes. Legume short-stipitate, compressed, broadly oblong, sinuate-margined, 3-8 (-10) cm long, 1-2 cm wide, glaucous, initially gray pubescent.

  • Discussion

    CN 2n = 26 (Atchison, 1948). This species is taken up by Enari (1962) and listed by Mathias & McClintock (1963), but I do not think it is very common. One specimen from Santa Catalina Island represents a stand independent of cultivation. The virtues of A. podalyriifolia as a conservatory species are extolled in Addisonia 15: 57. Pl. 541, and Riedel (1957) says that it is “one of the most effective small tree-Acacias.”

  • Distribution

    Urban California. Cultivated ornamental, occasionally escaped. Oct.-Feb. Native of Australia.

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