This is a good shrub for textural effects, handsome in flower, often used as bank cover, mass, screen, espalier, border even a hedge. Does need room to spread out. NE of Student Health by Parking Lots. 800 species of shrubs and trees, mostly of dry tropical or warm temperate regions, particularly in Australia where they are known as Wattles. Stipules are sometimes present as modified spines.
Flowers are usually yellow and are in bloom in late winter to early spring.
Fruit are ovate to linear pods, sometimes constricted between seeds. Some species are important as timber, tanbark, dyewood, gums, and other commercial products. They prefer full sun and respond to ample water. Many are drought tolerant once established. Propagation is by seeds.