The cabbage tree wattle is yet another wattle! This appears to have a limited range on Fowlers Gap and has only been noted occurring along the creek to the north of Freislich Dam in South Sandstone paddock. It is an attractive, gnarled wattle with a bright silvery canopy up to 4 m high.

Bark: rough, striated on trunk, smooth on branches.
Phyllodes (leaves): narrowly elliptic, 50-80 x 3-5 mm, finely pointed, rigid, straight, silvery gray with fine hairs ane veins.
Flowers: single or in racemes of 2-5, globular, golden yellow.
Fruit: linear, grey, slightly constricted between longitudinal seeds.
Source: Phillip Moore (2005). A guide to plants of inland Australia. Reed New Holland, ISBN 1 876334 86 X.
G.M. Cunningham, W.E. Mulham, P.L. Milthorpe & J.H. Leigh 1992. Plants of western New South Wales. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
Photos: Ian Roach

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