Acacia leprosa, also known as cinnamon wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect or spreading, sticky, aromatic shrub, occasionally a tree, elliptic or narrowly elliptic to lance-shaped phyllodes, usually two spherical heads of pale yellow flowers and thinly leathery to firmly papery pods.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Cinnamon 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 verniciflua
- Acacia subporosa
- Acacia stictophylla
- Acacia rostriformis
- Acacia venulosa
- Acacia baeuerlenii
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Fabales
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Acacia
- Species
- Acacia leprosa
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