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Acacia dealbata
An Australian Acacia used in the floral trade with finely divided leaves and yellow puffball flowers that are present late winter/early spring. According to Wiikipedia, the plant does not tolerate prolonged frost. These have flourished during a period of 5 years with periods of deep freeze up to a week long with temps not coming up past 40f(which for us is extremely cold) Not sure when they were introduced, but like the gorse there are many groupings of naturalized trees forming thick patches
Throughout the rural Coos Cnty region - these were spotted in S Bandon
They are beautiful. I also found A. mearnsii and A baileyana. I was able to completely rule out baileyana by the leaf size. A mearnsii is apparently hardier than the rest of them
Hi Karen, I hadn't seen A. decurrens in the blogs but then it would be very difficult to distinguish between the two. Either way, they're beautiful! :)
ON doing more research, I'm not sure if this is A decurrens or A dealbata. Both are reported to have naturalized in the region
Thank you, Cindy. I was pretty sure this was the species(I think I saw one of your spottings) but for the life of me couldn't remember the name - just that it was an Australian species
Spotted on Feb 25, 2012
Submitted on Feb 26, 2012
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