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|familia=Fabaceae

|familia=Fabaceae

|genus=Acacia  

|genus=Acacia

|species=saligna  

|species=saligna

|common_name=Golden wreath wattle, Orange wattle, Port Jackson willow, Wattle, Port Jackson willow, Western australian golden wattle

|common_name=Golden wreath wattle, Orange wattle, Port Jackson willow, Wattle, Port Jackson willow, Western australian golden wattle

|name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia

|name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia

|exposure=sun

|exposure=sun

|sun_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia

|sun_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia

|features=flowers

|features=flowers, naturalizes, invasive

|flower_season=early spring, mid spring, late spring, early summer, mid summer, late summer

|flower_season=early spring, mid spring, late spring, early summer, mid summer, late summer

|flower_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia

|flower_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia

|usda_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia

|usda_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia

|max_zone=10

|max_zone=10

|image=Upload.png

|image=Acacia saligna(01).jpg

|image_width=240

|image_width=240

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'''''Acacia saligna''''', commonly known by various names including '''coojong''', '''golden wreath wattle''', '''orange wattle''', '''blue-leafed wattle''', '''Western Australian golden wattle''', and, in [[Africa]], '''Port Jackson willow''', is a small [[tree]] in the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Fabaceae]].  Native to [[Australia]], it is widely distributed throughout the south west corner of [[Western Australia]], extending north as far as the [[Murchison River (Western Australia)|Murchison River]], and east to [[Israelite Bay, Western Australia|Israelite Bay]].

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[[File:Acacia March 2008-2.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Flowers and leaves]]

| growth_habit = ?  <!--- tree, shrub, herbaceous, vine, etc -->

Acacia saligna grows as a small, dense, spreading tree with a short trunk and a weeping habit.  It grows up to eight metres tall.  Like many ''[[Acacia]]'' species, it has [[phyllode]]s rather than true leaves; these can be up to 25 centimetres long.  At the base of each phyllode is a [[nectary]] [[gland]], which secretes a sugary fluid.  This attracts [[ants]], which are believed to reduce the numbers of [[leaf-eating]] insects.  The yellow flowers appear in early spring and late winter, in groups of up to ten bright yellow spherical flower heads.  The fruit is a legume, while the seed is oblong and dark to black in colour.<ref name="Cronk">{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/?id=y60B--a5j6gC|title=Plant Invaders: The Threat to Natural Ecosystems|author=Quentin C. B. Cronk, Janice L. Fuller|publisher=Springer|location=[[Kew Gardens|Royal Botanic Gardens]], Kew|isbn=0412483807|year=1995}}</ref>

| high = ?  <!--- 1m (3 ft) -->

 

| wide =    <!--- 65cm (25 inches) -->

| origin = ?  <!--- Mexico, S America, S Europe, garden, etc -->

 

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| lifespan =    <!--- perennial, annual, etc -->

| exposure = ?  <!--- full sun, part-sun, semi-shade, shade, indoors, bright filtered (you may list more than 1) -->

| water = ?  <!--- frequent, regular, moderate, drought tolerant, let dry then soak -->

| features =    <!--- flowers, fragrance, fruit, naturalizes, invasive -->

| hardiness =    <!--- frost sensitive, hardy, 5°C (40°F), etc -->

| bloom =     <!--- seasons which the plant blooms, if it is grown for its flowers -->

| usda_zones = ?   <!--- eg. 8-11 -->

| sunset_zones =     <!--- eg. 8, 9, 12-24, not available -->

| color = IndianRed

| image = Upload.png  <!--- Freesia.jpg -->

| image_width = 240px    <!--- leave as 240px if horizontal orientation photo, or change to 180px if vertical -->

| image_caption =    <!--- eg. Cultivated freesias -->

| regnum = Plantae  <!--- Kingdom -->

| divisio =   <!--- Phylum -->

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| familia =   <!--- Family -->

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Acacia saligna, Wendl. (A. leiophylla, Benth.). A low tree or tall shrub with angular, rather drooping branches: phyll. lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, or even oblanceolate, 3-8 1/2 in. or lower lvs. 1 ft. long, 1/4-1 1/4 or even 1 3/4 in. wide, acute to obtuse, narrowed to base; 1 central nerve, often excentric, ending in a recurved point or obtuse; gland at base or none: fls. large (1/2in. in diam.), either in large racemes at the ends of the branches or reduced to 4 or 5 heads strung along the axils of the lvs. for 2 or 3 ft.; peduncles varying from 1/4-1/2in. in length: pods constricted between the seeds, flat with nerve-like margins, 3-5 in. long, 1/4in. wide; funicle club-shaped, three-fourths length of seed; ripe Aug. Fls. March-May and to slight extent at various times.—Botanists do not find any well-marked differences between this species and the next and are therefore inclined to combine the two. Nurserymen base their distinction on the color of the phyll., a bluish-tinged one being called A. cyanophylla, while the green phyll., especially if it is smaller, is called A. saligna. Both forms are also said to have been secured from seed gathered from a single tree. Nurserymen should test this to satisfy themselves. Another so-called botanical distinction gives the funicle straight in one species and folded in the other. This does not hold, as such a combination can be seen in the same plant, and even in the same pod. This species is variable in other respects. Fls. may be in groups of 4 or 5 and strung along the axis of lvs. for 2 or 3 ft. This type may have either large or small or even mixed phyll., or the fls. may be in large clusters (either erect or pendulous) at the ends of the branches. In either case, the large or the small or the mixed types of phyll. may accompany them.

Acacia saligna, Wendl. (A. leiophylla, Benth.). Fig. 72. A low tree or tall shrub with angular, rather drooping branches: phyll. lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, or even oblanceolate, 3-8 1/2 in. or lower lvs. 1 ft. long, 1/4-1 1/4 or even 1 3/4 in. wide, acute to obtuse, narrowed to base; 1 central nerve, often excentric, ending in a recurved point or obtuse; gland at base or none: fls. large (1/2in. in diam.), either in large racemes at the ends of the branches or reduced to 4 or 5 heads strung along the axils of the lvs. for 2 or 3 ft.; peduncles varying from 1/4-1/2in. in length: pods constricted between the seeds, flat with nerve-like margins, 3-5 in. long, 1/4in. wide; funicle club-shaped, three-fourths length of seed; ripe Aug. Fls. March-May and to slight extent at various times.—Botanists do not find any well-marked differences between this species and the next and are therefore inclined to combine the two. Nurserymen base their distinction on the color of the phyll., a bluish-tinged one being called A. cyanophylla, while the green phyll., especially if it is smaller, is called A. saligna. Both forms are also said to have been secured from seed gathered from a single tree. Nurserymen should test this to satisfy themselves. Another so-called botanical distinction gives the funicle straight in one species and folded in the other. This does not hold, as such a combination can be seen in the same plant, and even in the same pod. This species is variable in other respects. Fls. may be in groups of 4 or 5 and strung along the axis of lvs. for 2 or 3 ft. This type may have either large or small or even mixed phyll., or the fls. may be in large clusters (either erect or pendulous) at the ends of the branches. In either case, the large or the small or the mixed types of phyll. may accompany them.

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