ACACIA
The genus Acacia is well known by the common name Wattle. They are best known as ornamentals but some species are excellent quick growing and hot burning firewood and some others have timbers suitable for furniture making.
All Acacias in the following list have showy bright to pale yellow flowers and are leguminous (add nitrogen to the soil)
The species represented here are from The Southern highlands of N.S.W. Australia which has a very diverse range of soil type,climate and habitat.
Temperature ranges between -15deg C to +42deg C and rainfall between 24" to 50" p.a.
| Species | Common Name | Uses | Comment |
| aculeatissima | Juniper Wattle | Low Growing Ornamental | Poor Clay Soils/Open Position |
| baileyana | Cootamundra Wattle | Windbreaks,Ornamental,Very Hardy And Fast Growing | Most Positions |
| brownii | Juniper Wattle | Ornamental,Revegetation | Understory Of Open Woodland or More Open Positions |
| dealbata | Silver wattle | Firewood,Habitat,Windbreaks | Woodland to Open Positions, Very Hardy, Root Suckers |
| decurrens | Early Black wattle | Excellent Firewood,Trunk Size To300mm,Very Hardy | Poor Clay Soils To Better Loams,Slightly Frost Sensitive |
| falciformis | Hickory wattle | Tough Quality Timber,To 15m high | Likes Soils Of Moderate Fertility,Slightly Frost sensitive |
| fimbriata var ? | Windellama Wattle | Very Attractive Ornamental,New Variety As Yet Unnamed,Rounded Form To 3m | Poor Tight Clay Soils |
| genistifolia | Spreading Wattle | The Commonest Of the Small Prickly wattles,Important As Bird Habitat,To 1.5m | Mostly Poorer Soils |
| glaucescens | Coast Myall | Not Known,To 4m high | Not Common In This Area,Fringes Of The Shoalhaven River Gorge |
| implexa | Lightwood | Timber Quality Unknown But May Be Like A.melanoxylon | Scattered Distribution In Various Locations |
| longifolia | Sydney Golden Wattle | Showy Ornamental | Mediun Quality Soils Maybe Slightly Frost Sensitive |
| mearnsii | Late Black Wattle | Showy Ornamental With Feathery Foliage,Firewood | Widely Varied Habitats |
| melanoxylon | Blackwood | One Of Australias Finest Furniture Timbers | Will Grow Most Situations But Grows Best In Moist Shetered Sites |
| obtusata | Blunt-Leaf Wattle | Shrub With Very Bright Yellow Flowers | Well Drained Sites |
| paradoxa | Kangaroo Thorn | Armed With Sharp Thorns | Generally Poorer soils and Open Position |
| parramattensis | Green Wattle | Excellent Reveg. Species,Root Suckers,Great Firewood,Hardy, Fast Growing | Loams and Clay Soils |
| rubida | Red Stem Wattle | Good Reveg Species,Attractive Ornamental, | Most Soil Types and Positions |
| terminalis | Sunshine Wattle | Very Bright Yellow Flowers,Ornamental,Reveg. | Usually Understory Of Stringybark Forest,Good For Reveg In Same Soil Types |
| trachyphloia | None | Attractive Medium Sized Feathery Foliaged Tree | Loams to Clay Soils |
| uncinata | Round Leaf Wattle | Ornamental,Reveg | Most Situations |
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