Wattleseed for food!
Acacias (Wattles) Click on thumbnail to see photo Descriptions
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| Acacia bancroftii (description) | Acacia complanata (description) | Acacia concurrens (description) | Acacia decora (description) | Acacia falcata (description) |
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| Acacia holosericea (description) | Acacia iteaphylla (description) | Acacia macradenia (description) | Acacia fimbriata (formerly perangusta) (description) | Acacia podalyriifolia (description) |
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Wattleseed is a highly versatile and nutritious roasted grain (Acacia seeds) with an amazing coffee, chocolate, hazelnut flavour. Wattleseed can be used in sauces, ice cream, pavlova, rubs and coatings or as a coffee substitute, although there are hundreds of ways to use Wattleseed. Ground Wattleseed | |||
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Australian Plants Descriptions
Acacia bancroftii
Bancroft's wattle. A small upright tree with large, wide bluish gren phyllodes to 20 cm, and having racemes of bright yellow 1 cm ball flowers in autumn to early winter in Brisbane. Some leaves have a "tooth" projection.Acacia complanata
Flat-Stemmed Wattle. Shrub to small tree with yellow ball flowers for several months of the year. Green stems are flattened or angular.Acacia concurrens
Late Flowering Black Wattle. Tree to 10m with leaves (phyllodes) variable but to about 15cm long and 5cm wide, producing flowers in 8cm spikes in August, the colour varying from pale yellow to lemon. Similar to Acacia leiocalyx, but he part attaching the phyllode to the stem (pulvinus) is more than 5mm long, whereas the former is less than 5mm.Acacia decora
Pretty Wattle. 4m shrub with narrow greyish leaves and golden ball flowers in AugustAcacia falcata
A wattle to 3m with blue-green curved leaves and cream ball flowers in winter.Acacia holosericea
A large shrub or small tree. The broad phyllodes (leaves) have a somewhat silvery appearance. Yellow rod flower spikes appear along the branches in winter, and these are followed by black, narrow, coiled pods.Acacia iteaphylla
A tree to 5m with narrow grey phyllodes and producing lemon ball flowers over a long time from autumn to winter.Acacia macradenia
Zig Zag Wattle. Shrub or small tree to 4m. Branches are zig-zag and pendulous. Masses of golden ball flowers in July/August.Acacia fimbriata (this form formerly Acacia perangusta)
Eprapah Wattle. 6m small tree with dense foliage to ground level, covered with bright yellow ball flowers in August. This tree was previously referred to as Acacia perangusta, having leaves to 7cm long, narrower and longer than those typical of A. fimbriata (Brisbane Wattle). However the two are now classified as one species.Acacia podalyriifolia
Mount Morgan Wattle, Queensland Silver Wattle. A fast growing spreading tree to 5m, with silvery grey foliage and large clusters of bright yellow ball flowers in winter. The Silver Wattle is a spectacular Australian plant commonly grown in Queensland gardens.Acacia sophorae
A spreading, scrambling wattle up to 3m high, with green typical wattle phyllodes. Short yellow flower spikes appear in spring. It occurs naturally as a low growing shrub on sand dunes.
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