Sidney Golden Wattle

Acacia longifolia (uh-KAY-shuh  lon-ji-FOLE-ee-uh)

Sidney Golden Wattle

DROUGHT :  ✺✺✺ RECOMMENDATION :   ★★ HEIGHT:     15' - 20' SPREAD:    15' - 20' FORM:    Obovoid GROWTH RATE:  Rapid CHARACTER:  Evergreen, Woody

LEAF:  Color  Green, phyllodes Texture  Medium  Density  Medium Fall Color  None FLOWER:  Color   Yellow Time  Spring

FRUIT:  Color  Brown, pod      Time  Summer

LANDSCAPE VALUE:       Accent  X     Background  X      Barrier        Border  X      Bonsai        Climber         Container  X     Erosion Control  X     Espalier        Fall Color         Fire Retardant        Foreground        Foundation         Flowers  X     Fruit        Ground Cover         Hedges  X      Lawn Substitute      Lawn Tree        Low Maintenance         Mass  X      Multi-Trunk  X       Poolside         Rockery         Rapid Growth  X Screen  X     Shade        Standard        Street Tree        Topiary        Tropical Effect        Xeriscape X       Windbreak  X     Other  Slope

ENVIRONMENT:  Sun   X    1/2 Shade         Shade        Wind  X     Heat  X      Dust  X     Aridity             Moisture      Humidity        Smog  X     Saline       Alkaline Soil   X    Coastal        Other

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Temperature Tolerance    16    F

CULTURAL REQUIREMENTS :   No special requirements.

PESTS AND DISEASES:  scale, twig borers, psyllid, whitefly, mealybug

REMARKS:   A good soil binder in sand and slopes.  Generally pruned and grown as a shrub.  Most  Acacias are not  cold hardy enough to survive in the Antelope Valley.   Acacias  do not have true leaves, but flattened leaf stems called phyllodes.