Acacia lanigera, commonly known as woolly wattle or hairy wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south-east of continental Australia. It is a rigid shrub with hairy branchlets, leathery, narrowly elliptic, linear or lance-shaped phyllodes with the narrower end towards the base, spherical to oblong heads of golden yellow flowers, and linear, curved to coiled, leathery pods covered with shaggy or woolly hairs.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Woolly Wattle being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
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Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Fabales
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Acacia
- Species
- Acacia lanigera
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