About Black Wattle
Acacia aulacocarpa, commonly known as Papua New Guinea brown wattle, New Guinea wattle, golden-flowered salwood or lancewood, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is native to New Guinea, Queensland and New South Wales. It is a shrub or tree, with elliptic to narrowly elliptic phyllodes, cylindrical heads of bright golden-yellow flowers, and narrowly oblong pods up to 80 mm (3.1 in) long.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Acacia aulacocarpa
- Genus
- Acacia
- Family
- MIMOSACEAE
- Habit
- Tree

Botanical family
Mimosaceae
Mimosa/Acacia family
Black Wattle belongs to the Mimosaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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