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Acacia floribunda, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
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#1012 most planted

Acacia floribunda

White sally wattle · also Gossamer wattle, River wattle, White-sallow wattle

Spreading
188
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
2
cities
3.8 in
median trunk (10 cm, 188 measured)

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Acacia floribunda is a spreading shrub or tree with pendulous branches and linear to narrowly lance-shaped phyllodes. It produces spikes of pale yellow to white flowers. This species is endemic to eastern Australia and known for its distinctive form.

Where it grows

Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.

  1. Melbourne · Australia
    185—3.8 in
  2. Los Angeles · United States
    3—7.5 in

No city in this list records planting dates for this species, so age is blank throughout.

Traits

Form
Spreading

Trunk diameters across every city: median 3.8 in, mean 3.7 in, 90th percentile 5.6 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.

Native range

Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.

Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

  • Queensland tropical rain forests

Tropical & Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands

  • Brigalow tropical savanna

Temperate Grasslands, Savannas & Shrublands

  • Eastern Australia mulga shrublands

Other Acacia in the catalogue

35 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.

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