Gardening With Wild Flowers

LIGHT WOOD

Acacia implexa

This wattle produces a useful cabinet-wood. It has slightly greenish-grey foliage, the "leaves" being rather broad, sickle- shaped and many-nerved. It has a handsome, spreading habit and produces dense heads of globular flowers about January to March. The pods are long, narrow, and much curved. It is widely spread, being found on the Queensland and New South Wales coast, particularly along the river-banks, and scattered throughout Victoria.

QUEENSLAND SILVER WATTLE

Acacia podalyriifolia

This lovely wattle is one of the most commonly cultivated forms.

It is a tall shrub, mealy-glaucous all over, and covered with fine hairs. The "leaves" are small, ovate in shape, rather oblique, with a single central vein. The fluffy, globular flower-heads, of a delicate light golden-yellow, are produced in dense heads in springtime. They have a delicate fragrance. The pod is very flat and also mealy-glaucous, making an attractive show. It is a Queensland and northern New South Wales species.

BLACK WATTLE

Acacia decurrens

Among the tallest of the wattles, this fine species has dark-green

bipinnate leaves with numerous glands along the common petiole. The leaflets are very numerous, and are smooth. The fragrant flowers are produced in long heads in spring. It occurs in New South Wales and Victoria and has been extensively planted in other States. It is one of the best of our wattles. The bark is valuable for tanning.

SWEET-SCENTED WATTLE

Acacia suaveolens

Growing in some of the most exposed and barren prominences

of the Queensland and New South Wales coast, and in other arid areas of these States and of Victoria and Tasmania, this is a charming plant. It grows to a height of about 3-6 feet, slender, with grey-green "leaves" varying very much in size, sometimes being long and narrow, up to 4 inches in length, often being shorter and broader, but always rather thick. The flower-heads are pale-yellow, in fluffy balls, very sweetly scented and enclosed in numerous bracts in bud. The pod is oblong, flat, and leathery, grey-green and very blunt. It has varying flowering periods according to situation, but is most profuse in late winter or early spring.

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