On the 28th September as the chilly weather lingered and the golden globes of Spring begin to adorn the roadsides, Mid Macquarie Landcare Inc hosted a Wattle ID workshop.

Extract from Dubbo Field Naturalists newsletter: 

Burrendong Botanic Garden and Arboretum (BBGA) was the perfect venue for Mid Macquarie Landcare's Wattle ID Workshop led by Anthony O'Halloran from Bilby Blooms.

Anthony arrived with literally bucket-loads of wattles in full bloom - collected either from Bilby Blooms extensive plantings or en route to the workshop.

Around 16 Landcare members, field naturalists and other enthusiastic locals spent a couple of engrossing hours looking over the different species local to the Wellington region and discussing how to identify them from each other.

We discussed the many features to look for as part of identification - juvenile leaves - phyllodes - glands - globular and spike flowerheads - pod shapes - even the way seeds lay inside the pods. 

All such information is more than necessary with Australia currently having something like 1057 formally-described species of Acacia. (Far more than our eucalypts - a mere 700 or so.) Author: Elsie Howe.

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Download this handy-dandy guide to  Wattles of the Wellington region or head to the Acacias of Australia website to search online (free) or download the app ($).