Black Wattle

Scientific Name: 

Acacia auriculiformis

Location: 

Everywhere - very common

Description: large spreading tree commonly 10-20m high, attaining 20-30m on favourable sites, with dense folliage and full round crown. Bark rough, hard, dark brown, grey or black, fissured towards base.

 

Flowers: yellow in dense cylindrical spikes 5-8cm long, mostly in pairs in upper leaf axils.

 

Fruit: curled-twisted, in leathery-woody pods, about 5-7cm x 1.5cm, dark brown when ripe, containing blackseeds arranged diagonally, attached to short bright orange-red arils.

 

Flowering: May - July.

 

Fruiting: August - October.

Black Wattle
Black Wattle flowers