Acacia verticillata in flower on the front glasshouse border. A mass of mini citrus yellow bottle brushes. The flowers are a mass of densely packed stamens. The sharp phyllodes are evergreen and borne in whorls around the stem. A native to South Australia where it grows as a small tree or multi-stemmed shrub.
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Acacia verticillata
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Acacia verticillata
(phyllode, a wing or growth on any part of a plant which functions as a leaf.)