Acacia microbotrya
species of plant
Acacia microbotrya, commonly known as manna wattle or gum wattle, is a shrub or tree belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Phyllodineae. It is native to Western Australia. The Noongar peoples know the tree as badjong, galyang, koonert or menna.
Description
The bushy shrub or tree typically grows to a height of 2 to 7 metres (7 to 23 ft) with the canopy spreading to a width of 5 m (16 ft). It has glabrous branchlets with rough brown bark on the stem. The patent to pendulous grey-green phyllodes have a narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate shape. Each olive green glabrous phyllode is 5 to 14 centimetres (2 to 6 in) and are 5 to 20 millimetres (0.20 to 0.79 in) wide. It blooms from March to August and produces yellow-cream flowers. The inflorescences are racemose with the axes having a length of 1.5 to 4 centimetres (0.59 to 1.57 in), the cream to pale yellow globular heads containing 20 to 30 flowers have a diameter of 4 to 6 millimetres (0.16 to 0.24 in). Following flowering dark brown to blackish glabrous seed pods form are constricted at regular intervals resembling a string of beads in shape with a length of 15 to 20 cm (6 to 8 in) and a width of 6 to 8 millimetres (0.24 to 0.31 in).
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