Acacia cognata

Australian Native
Acacia cognata, or bower wattle, river wattle or narrow-leaved bower wattle, is a tree or shrub species that is endemic to south eastern Australia.It grows typically grows to a height of 0.6 to 10 m in height and has an erect to spreading habit. It has smooth,grey or grey-brown bark on the trunk and larger branches. The branchlets have low longitudinal green to brown coloured ridges that alternate with sticky resinous bands. The green linear to narrowly elliptic phyllodes are slightly curved and have a length of 4 to 10 cm and a width 1 to 3.5 mm. The sparsely hairy to glabrous phyllodes have ciliate margins with three main longitudinal veins. The pale yellow globular flower-heads have a diameter of 3 to 6 mm and contain 10 to 25 flowers and appear singly or in pairs in the leaf axils between July and October in the species' native range. The papery, straight, flat seed pods are slightly raised over seeds with a length of 3 to 10 cm and a width of 2 to 4 mm.  This specimen was planted in 2014

3.00 Location Latitude; -38.4023387930124 Longitude  146.055442255584