Acacia oswaldii

Acacia oswaldii, known by the Aboriginal name boree as well as umbrella wattle and miljee, is a small evergreen shrub or tree in the Fabaceae family endemic to mainland Australia, where it occurs in arid and semi-arid regions across South Australia, the Northern Territory, southwestern Queensland, western New South Wales, northern Victoria, and parts of Western Australia, typically on calcareous sands or loamy soils. Plants reach 1 to 8 metres in height with a dense, rounded crown and slender, terete branchlets covered in resinous red micro-hairs. As in most Australian acacias the true leaves are reduced and replaced by flattened, leathery, narrowly oblanceolate phyllodes 4 to 10 centimetres long with an obscure central nerve. Flowering occurs from October to December; the inflorescence is a globular head of fragrant golden-yellow flowers. The fruit is a curved or coiled, leathery pod containing flattened seeds with conspicuous arils.