Acacia baileyana

The Cootamundra wattle is a member of the pea or Fabaceae family and is native to Australia, originally limited to a very small area in southern inland New South Wales (comprising the Temora, Cootamundra, Stockinbingal and Bethungra districts). However, it has been naturalized widely in Australia. It can grow up to 10 m tall.

• Leaves are evergreen, fern-like, being bipinnate, glaucous blue-green to silvery grey, with 2–4 pairs of pinnae, up to 1–2.5 cm long, each pinna divided into 8–24 pairs of leaflets closely spaced, cultrate to oblong, 5–8 mm long and 0.7–1.6 mm wide, glabrous, with ± prominent midvein and 1 or 2 ± discernible secondary veins and sometimes lateral veins; apex is rounded to subacute.
• Flowers are cream to golden colour, in axillary racemes 3–10 cm long, or terminal false-panicles, each with 11–25-flowers, produced in the leaf axils in late winter and spring.
• Pods are 3–10 cm long, 7.5–15 mm wide, coriaceous, bluish at first, later brown to black, glabrous.