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Cootamundra wattle
Acacia baileyana
About
Acacia baileyana, commonly known as Cootamundra wattle, Bailey's wattle or golden mimosa, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of New South Wales, although it has become naturalised in other parts of Australia. It is a shrub or tree with smooth bark, bipinnate leaves with mostly two to four pairs of oblong to narrowly oblong leaflets, spherical heads of bright yellow flowers arranged in 8 to 36 racemes in leaf axils, and straight, leathery pods up to 100 mm (3.9 in) long.
- Family
- Fabaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Acacia baileyana
- Slug
- acacia-baileyana
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Acacia
- Species
- baileyana
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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