Acacia oxycedrus

Plant Characteristics

Habit		shrub
Height:	⇕	3 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 3. to 10 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 10.
Width:	⇔	7 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 7.
Lifespan:	⌛	perennial
Bloom:	❀	early spring, mid spring, late spring, early winter, mid winter, late winter

Cultivation

Exposure:	☼	sun
Features:	✓	flowers
USDA Zones:		8 to 10
Flower features:	❀	orange, yellow

Scientific Names

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Acacia oxycedrus (Spike Wattle) is an erect or spreading shrub which is endemic to Australia.

It grows to up to 2 metres high and has sharp-pointed phyllodes with 3 or 4 prominent longitudinal veins. The bright yellow to pale yellow cylindrical flowerheads appear in groups of 1 to 3 in the axils of the phyllodes from July to October, followed by straight or slightly curved seed pods which are 4 to 10 cm long and 3 to 6 mm wide.

The species occurs on sandy soil in dry sclerophyll forest or heath in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales.

Read about Acacia oxycedrus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Acacia oxycedrus, Sieb. A rigid shrub with terete and usually pubescent branches: phyll. striate, linear-lanceolate but broad at base and tapering to a pungent point, 1/2-3/4in. or even 1 in. long and 3-4-nerved on each side; small stipules, often spinescent: spikes 1 in. long; fls. 4-merous; calyx short with obtuse lobes: pods 3 in. long, 1/6in. wide, striate, incurved and with convex valves; seed longitudinal; funicle thickened from the base and much folded. B.M. 2928.—Superficially resembles A. verticilata, but the phyll. are broader and the valves of the pods are thicker than in that species. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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