Acacia holosericea, commonly known as candelabra wattle, soapbush, silver wattle, silver-leaved wattle and silky wattle is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to tropical northern Australia. It is a shrub or tree with narrowly elliptic phyllodes, spikes of golden yellow flowers and tightly and sometimes irregularly coiled pods that remain as entangled clumps after the seeds have been released.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Candelabra 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 aulacocarpa
- Acacia umbellata
- Acacia concurrens
- Acacia leiocalyx
- Acacia binervia
- Acacia leptostachya
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Fabales
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Acacia
- Species
- Acacia holosericea
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