Acacia falcata "Hickory Wattle" - Plant Profiles

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Acacia falcata

Scientific Name	Acacia falcata
Categories	Nitrogen FixerShrubWattle
Common Name(s)	Hickory Wattle, Sickle-Leaved Wattle
Family	Fabaceae, Sub-family Mimosoideae

Description

"Slender shrub or tree 2–5 m high. Branchlets acutely angled at extremities, red-brown, commonly lightly pruinose, glabrous. Phyllodes falcate, broadest above middle, much-narrowed at base, 7–19 cm long, 1–4 cm wide, thin, grey-green to glaucous, sometimes green, glabrous, with excentric midrib."(WorldWideWattle ver. 2)

Notes

Acacia falcata is used in large quantities due to a high success rate in rehabilitation, the ease of collection, processing and storage. In drier seasons it may still produce a worthwhile crop where most other species fail to do so. It's commonly seen colonising roadsides after disturbance.

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Distribution

"Occurs in coastal regions and on the eastern slopes of the Great Divide from near Narooma, N.S.W., N to Bundaberg and also near Herberton and Ingham (c. 900 km north of Bundaberg), Qld. A similar Qld disjunction occurs in A. falciformis and A. fimbriata. A common element of the understorey of Eucalyptus communities, often in shallow stony soil." (WorldWideWattle ver.2)