Wiry Wattle
Acacia extensa
Description 4
The wiry wattle is a perennial evergreenshrub that grows to a height of 2 metres (7 ft) tall, although it can grow taller under cultivation.
This occasionally weeping bush produces angled glabrous branchlets that are green with yellowish ribs. The foliage are light green filiform pyllodites that are scattered along the branchlets that they resemble, they are typically 6 centimetres (2.4 in) to 24 centimetres (9 in) in length and 0.75 millimetres (0.03 in) to 2 millimetres (0.08 in) in width.
A. extensa typically flowers in spring (between August and October) and produces yellow ball shaped blossoms that are generally less than 1 centimetre (0.39 in) in diameter off short stem stalks called racemes.
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- Emily Bieman, no known copyright restrictions (public domain), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acacia_extensa_-_Wiry_Wattle.jpg
- (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acacia_extensa
More Info
- iNat taxon page
- Atlas of Living Australia
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- BOLD Systems BIN search
- eFloras.org
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
- HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
- IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
- SEINet Symbiota portals
- Tropicos
- World Flora Online
