Acacia retinodes

The swamp wattle is a member of the pea or Fabaceae family and is native to South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania. It can grow up to 10 m tall and is able to form suckers.

• Leaves, like most species of Acacia, are phyllodes [modified petioles or leaf stems] rather than true leaves; they are narrowly oblanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate or linear, green to grey-green, glabrous and variable, quite crowded on stems, 5–16 cm long and 3–16 mm wide, with one main nerve per face.
• Flowers are in racemes with axes 2–4 cm long, flower heads globular (clusters of 18–30 flowers), pale yellow to cream coloured; flowers are 5 merous, sepals united, ovary glabrous; flowering is in summer between December and February.
• Fruit is a legume pod up to 16 cm long and 0.8–1.1 cm wide, firmly chartaceous (papery).