Acacia ligulata seed

LATIN NAME: ACACIA LIGULATA

COMMON NAME: Umbrella Bush Wattle

The umbrella bush wattle puffs the spreading, evergreen shrub or the small tree with the flattened, leaf-like stalks instead of the true leaves and the small, round, golden-yellow flower heads that open in the dense clusters through the warm season, the heads puffing among the foliage, the narrow, curved pods following. The plant grows quickly and stands the heat and the dry spells well. It likes the sun, and the light, well-drained soil.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The puffy golden heads of the umbrella bush wattle give it a recognised place in the research on the warm-climate wattles of the pea family, and the ligulata species appears in the studies of the drought-tolerant shrubs and the dry-season flowering. The work looks at the way the flattened stalks stand in for the leaves, the nitrogen-fixing roots, and the seed biology. The ecologists value the soil-building habit, and the growers of the dry-garden shrubs keep the species in their catalogues.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

In the dry, sunny garden, the umbrella bush wattle puffs the warm garden with the golden heads. The yellow blooms feed the bees, the roots enrich the poor soil, and the shrub makes the fine screen and the windbreak. It grows well in the light, well-drained, sunny ground. Golden-puffed, tough and soil-building.

To grow the Umbrella Bush Wattle from seed, pour the hot water over the seeds, then leave them to cool, sow them into the sandy drills of the tray, keep the tray warm and water gently, and the seedlings pop up within a couple of weeks.

Keep the tray warm and water gently, and pot the seedlings on as they grow. The puff blooms come within the season. Stand the young shrubs in the sunny, light ground, and the puff blooms will open through the season.

 

 

 

 

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Common names;
\nCooba, native willow, willow wattle, Broughton willow, Sally wattle and black wattle.

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The Coobah is a large shrub tree which can grow up to 3 to 20 m tall.

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With a life span of about 10–50 years.

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Acacia salicina is “closely related” to Acacia ligulata and Acacia bivenosa.

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