Acacia suaveolens (Sm.) Willd.
Prostrate to erect shrub with linear phyllodes up to 15 cm long, and globular axillary racemes of pale yellow flowers. To 2.5m. [RHSD, Hortus, FNSW].
Horticultural & Botanical History
Introduced to Britain in 1803. [JD]. Described and figured in Banks and Solander – Illustrations of the Botany of Captain Cook’s Voyage Round the World in H.M.S. Endeavour. p.26 and pl.83. LBC no.730/1823.
History at Camden Park
Acacia suaveolens is marked with an ‘x’ in an 1836 edition of Loddiges’ catalogue held at Camden Park [CPA]. The meaning of this is uncertain but plants growing at Camden were marked with a ‘c’ in the same catalogue and many plants marked with an ‘x’ subsequently appeared in lists of desiderata to Loddiges’. It seems likely that William Macarthur was familiar with this plant as it is widely distributed in coastal heath and dry sclerophyll forest.
Notes
Published Dec 26, 2009 - 01:05 PM | Last updated Jul 18, 2010 - 03:44 PM
Family | Fabaceae |
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Region of origin | Eastern Australia including Tasmania |
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Common Name | Sweet wattle |
Name in the Camden Park Record |
Acacia suaveolens |
Confidence level | high |