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Sturt's Desert pea

Classification: Fabaceae - Swainsona - formosa

A spreading vine that can vary in size and habit, with large plants sometimes standing semi-erect, up to 1m tall. Germinates and flowers rapidly after rain. Colour variants are sometimes found.

Views this Week:96

Gidgee or Stinking Wattle

Classification: Fabaceae - Acacia - cambagei

A very slow growing gnarled small tree of desert areas growing to about 8m. Heartwood is heavy, dark red and durable though will be attacked by termites. Phyllodes are grey-green 6-8cm long.

Views this Week:93

Green Bird Flower or Rattlepod

Classification: Fabaceae - Crotalaria - cunninghamii

The distinctive bird-like shape of the flowers (the flower stalk is the bird's beak) give this desert plant its common name. Flowers are a greenish-yellow colour with prominent stripes on the larger

Views this Week:68

Christmas Tree Mulga

Classification: Fabaceae - Acacia - aneura var.conifera

Trees to 6-8 m tall, with a single, straight, erect trunk and relatively short, horizontally spreading lateral branches from base to apex (rendering the plants a conifer-like habit).

Views this Week:51

Umbrella Bush, Sandhill Wattle

Classification: Fabaceae - Acacia - ligulata

Acacia ligulata is widespread across most parts of arid and semi-arid Australia. A smallish rounded shrub about 1 to 3 meters high, leaves are slender about 1 cm wide and 10 cm long,

Views this Week:43

Waddywood

Classification: Fabaceae - Acacia - peuce

Acacia peuce is only found in 3 locations, all within the arid zone of the Simpson and Strzelecki desert. Mature trees slowly reach a height of about 10-15m. They have long narrow,

Views this Week:42

Whirrakee Wattle (Acacia williamsonii)

Classification: Fabaceae - Acacia - williamsonii

Very decorative shrub with a neat rounded or obconic shape and a profusion of bright golden inflorescences in the upper axils.

Views this Week:37

Velvet Wattle, Wyberba Wattle

Classification: Fabaceae - Acacia - pubifolia

A rare wattle is this small erect or spreading tree or shrub. It grows to to about 8 m high and has fissured, dark grey bark. Phyllodes are silvery grey-green and tapering at either end,

Views this Week:36

Acacia glaucoptera - Flat Wattle

Classification: Fabaceae - Acacia - glaucoptera

Acacias come in all shapes, sizes and forms. Acacia glaucoptera - Flat Wattle is one of the more unusual wattles. It can be found in coastal and inland mallee regions from Albany to Israelite Bay.

Views this Week:34

Summer-scented Wattle

Classification: Fabaceae - Acacia - rostellifera

Dense shrub or tree, 1-6 m high. Fl. yellow, Jul to Oct or Dec. Mainly on consolidated sand dunes.

Views this Week:34

Red Mulga, Creekline Miniritchi

Classification: Fabaceae - Acacia - cyperophylla

Outback travellers will notice these small trees by the red bark glowing in the sun. Growing along creek and drainage lines is this tall shrub or small tree (up to 7 or 8m tall) of arid areas.

Views this Week:34

Bean Tree, Bauhinia

Classification: Fabaceae - Bauhinia - gilva

Also known as Lysiphyllum gilvum. Large shrub or small tree to about 6 m high, partly deciduous in dry season. Glabrous (smooth) except for flowers that vary in colour from whitish through pink to

Views this Week:34

Crotalaria eremaea, Bluebush Pea, Desert Rattlepod

Classification: Fabaceae - Crotalaria - eremaea

Crotalaria eremaea is a widely distributed shrub of central Australia and a relatively common species growing on sand dunes. Densely woolly erect woody herb with yellow flowers, the Desert rattlepod,

Views this Week:34

Senna artemisioides ssp. helmsii - Blunt Leaved Cassia

Classification: Fabaceae - Senna - artemisioides ssp helmsii

Native to arid and semi-arid Australia this rounded green shrub grows to 1.5m and has cheerful yellow flowers from late winter to spring.

Views this Week:33

Acacia acuminata

Classification: Fabaceae - Acacia - acuminata

Shrub or tree, 1-12 m high. Fl. yellow, Jul to Oct. Variety of soils & habitats.

Views this Week:33

Desert cassia

Classification: Fabaceae - Senna - artemisioides subsp. filifolia

Shrub or tree 1-3m tall. Leaves alternating up the stems, composed of 1-4 pairs of narrow cylindrical leaflets, leaflets 2-4cm long, about 1mm wide, hairless. Flowers yellow, with 5 petals.

Views this Week:32

Dragon Tree

Classification: Fabaceae - Sesbania - formosa

A native of northern Australia, it is found in the Pilbara and Kimberley areas and eastward into Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.

Views this Week:32

Green Wattle, Acacia decurrens

Classification: Fabaceae - Acacia - decurrens

A small to medium sized tree. True bright green leaves with nectaries prominent along the central rib of each leaf. Young/small branched have a ribbed appearance.

Views this Week:32

Bancroft Wattle

Classification: Fabaceae - Acacia - bancroftii

Strangely shaped large phyllodes up to about 20cm long are a distinctive feature of this wattle from SE Qld. Each phyllode is a stem modified to carry out photosynthesis ,

Views this Week:29

Black Kennedia or Black Coral Pea

Classification: Fabaceae - Kennedia - nigricans

Dramatic black and yellow pea flowers make this vigorous climber a really special plant to find in the wild. The dark green leaves have 3 leaflets and are all up about 15cm long - sometimes not all

Views this Week:28

Dogwood- possibly?

Classification: Fabaceae - Acacia - unknown

Attractive weeping habit, to 6 m high. Leaves very similar to Acacia stenophylla but tree form not at all similar, or along drainage lines. Flower colour not observed.

Views this Week:28

Rigid Wattle

Classification: Fabaceae - Acacia - cochlearis

Bushy, erect to sprawling, pungent shrub, (0.3-)0.5-3 m high. Fl. yellow, Jul to Oct. White, yellow or red sand. Coastal or near coastal sandplains & sand dunes.

Views this Week:27