Acacia rubida

The red stem wattle or red leaved wattle is a member of the pea or Fabaceae family and is native to parts of eastern Australia. It is a shrub or tree with an erect to bushy habit, typically growing to a height of up to 10 m.

• Leaves are phyllodes [modified petioles or leaf stems] rather than true leaves, and are narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate-shaped, reddish to grey-green, leathery, 5–20 cm long and 0.8–2.5 cm across. The juvenile foliage is bipinnate, with 3–4 pairs of 4–7 long pinnates, each with 9–14 pinnule pairs.
• Flowers are simple inflorescences found in groups of 5–29 in an axillary racemes, an axis that is 1–10 cm in length; spherical flower-heads are 5–7 mm in diameter, containing 9–15 pale to bright yellow flowers.
• Fruit is a firmly papery to thin leathery, glabrous seed pod, straight and flat, 4–12 cm long and 6–9 mm wide, often covered in a powdery white coating.