Acacia baileyana
Cootamundra wattle · also Bailey's wattle, Golden mimosa, Bailey acacia
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Acacia baileyana is a graceful shrub or small tree known for its fern-like, bipinnate leaves and showy bright golden-yellow spherical flowers, blooming in winter and spring. Native to a restricted area of New South Wales, it thrives in well-drained, stony or clay loamy soils. While widely cultivated as an ornamental, it can become an invasive environmental weed outside its native range.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 9,9650.68%——
- 3890.29%27 yr7.5 in
- 3890.08%35 yr7.5 in
- 1660.11%—3.8 in
- 380.01%—5.9 in
- 10.00%—0.4 in
Traits
- Form
- Spreading
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Mature height
- 20–30 ft
- Canopy spread
- 20–40 ft
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Soil
- Well-drained, Clay, Loamy, Stony
- Water needs
- Low
- Drought tolerance
- High
- Wildlife value
- High
- Blooms
- Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Dec
Trunk diameters across every city: median 7.5 in, mean 6.9 in, 90th percentile 12 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.
Other Acacia in the catalogue
35 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
