''Acacia cardiophylla'', commonly known as West Wyalong wattle or Wyalong wattle, is an
evergreen
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shrub
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that is
endemic
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to eastern
Australia
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.
Description
The shrub typically grows to a height of and has
feathery like leaves and bright yellow flowers during its July to November blooming period.
It can have an erect to spreading habit and often has multiple stems. The dark grey or mottled brown bark is smooth. It blooms between August and November producing
inflorescence
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s in groups to 6 to 21 in axillary racemes. Each inflorescence has a zig-zag shaped axis with a length of . The spherical flower-heads have a diameter of and contain 20 to 40 bright yellow flowers. After flowering firmly papery to thinly leathery
seed pod
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s that are flat and straight to slightly curved form. The hairy brown pods are in length and wide.
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Distribution
''Acacia cardiophylla'' is indigenous to central and southern New South Wales
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and is found Gilgandra
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in the north down to around Wagga Wagga
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in the south and extending to the Lake Cargelligo
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area in the west. It is found on stony hills and ridges in shallow rocky sandy soils as a part of ''Eucalyptus
''Eucalyptus'' () is a genus of over seven hundred species of flowering trees, shrubs or mallees in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. Along with several other genera in the tribe Eucalypteae, including '' Corymbia'', they are commonly known as euca ...
'' woodland and mallee communities.naturalized
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in part of the Central Coast and Southern Tablelands
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The area is characterised by Plateau, high, flat country which has gene ...
regions.
See also
* List of ''Acacia'' species
References
External links
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cardiophylla
Flora of New South Wales
Fabales of Australia