Ploughshare wattle

Acacia gunnii, commonly known as ploughshare wattle or dog's tooth wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a diffuse, prostrate or erect shrub with more or less sessile, variably shaped phyllodes, usually with a rigid, sharply pointed rounded or triangular angle on the upper edge, spherical heads of cream-coloured to pale yellow flowers and firmly papery to thinly leathery, dark brown to blackish pods.

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Is it poisonous?

We have no record of Ploughshare 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.

Easily confused with

• Acacia divergens

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Fabales

Family

Fabaceae

Genus

Acacia

Species

Acacia gunnii

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