Sweet acacia

Acacia suaveolens, commonly known as sweet wattle or sweet-scented wattle, is a slender, erect shrub of the family Fabaceae endemic to the heaths and sclerophyll woodlands of coastal and near-coastal southeastern Australia. It typically grows 1-3 m tall, with slender, often glaucous branchlets and narrowly lanceolate to linear phyllodes 3-15 cm long that bear a single longitudinal vein and a small marginal gland near the base. From late autumn through winter the plant produces short axillary racemes of two to seven pale yellow to cream globular flower heads with a faint, sweet fragrance that gives the species its name. The legume pod is flat, oblong, glaucous-blue, and contains shiny black seeds with a folded orange aril. Adapted to fire-prone heath, it regenerates prolifically from soil-stored seed after burning.