Acacia verticillata

The prickly-leaved wattle or prickly mimosa is a member of the pea or Fabaceae family and is native to southeastern Australia. It is a shrub or tree that can grow to a height of about 10 m tall; branchlets have bristly prickling stipules 0.5–2 mm long.

• Leaves are evergreen; like most species of acacia, it has phyllodes rather than true leaves which grow crowded and whorled in bundles, shape being linear or lanceolate, 0.5–2.5 cm long and 1–7 mm wide, being glabrous, pungent and rigid with one main visible vein.
• Flower spikes are simple inflorescences up to 4.5 cm long, on glabrous stalks 2–5 mm long, and consisting of densely pack light yellow coloured flowers, flowering between July and December.
• Seed pods are compressed, linear, 2–8 cm long and 3–5 mm wide, and have quite thin valves.