Elegant Wattle

Botanical Name: Acacia victoriae
Common Names: Elegant Wattle, Prickly Wattle, Gundabluey, Bramble Wattle

Elegant Wattle is a tough, fast-growing Australian native shrub or small tree that performs exceptionally well in Perth’s dry climate. It bursts into a mass of pale yellow, scented flowers through spring and summer, adding great colour and structural beauty to any garden. It's an ideal choice for growers looking for a hardy, drought-tolerant native that double-dips as an edible bush food source.

Features:

Ideal prune height range: 2-4m

pH growing conditions: 6.0 to 8.0

Shade or full sun: Full sun to light shade

Minimum pot year 5: 40L pot

Time to fruit age: 2-3 years from seed

Elegant Wattle forms a dense, spreading canopy with grey-green foliage and soft pale yellow flower clusters. Once established, it handles heat, frost, dry spells, and poor soils with ease. Its light spiny habit makes it an excellent natural security barrier, habitat plant for small birds, or windbreak for property edges.

Interesting Notes:
The roasted seeds are a key wattleseed bushfood ingredient, featuring a rich, nutty flavor often used in baking, coffee substitutes, and ice cream.

As a legume, it fixes nitrogen into the soil, helping improve your surrounding garden beds and food forest layout.

Limited stock. Pickup from Parkwood, WA. Delivery to Perth Metro only.

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