Ploughshare Wattle - local native (Acacia gunnii)

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A low shrub with pale flowers. It is widespread through the goldfields bushland, but seldom abundant. The leaves are "ploughshare"-shaped. When not in flower it can be readily overlooked. Pale ball flowers in late winter-early spring.

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1: Flowers are pale. 2: Seed pods. Both: Muckleford Forest. 3: Flowers, Humboldt. 4. Kaweka Reserve, Castlemaine.
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