Juniper wattle

Acacia ulicifolia, the juniper wattle or prickly Moses, is a small, spreading shrub in the Fabaceae endemic to eastern Australia, where it occurs in dry sclerophyll forest and heath from Queensland through New South Wales and the ACT to Victoria and Tasmania. It usually grows 1-2 m tall, with slender, often arching, ribbed branchlets covered in densely crowded, rigid, sharply pointed phyllodes 5-15 mm long that recall those of a juniper or gorse. The phyllodes are dark green, terete to slightly compressed, and bear a fine longitudinal nerve. Pale to bright yellow globular flower heads, 6-8 mm in diameter, are borne singly on slender axillary peduncles between winter and early spring, often profusely covering the plant. Pods are narrow, straight to slightly curved, 3-8 cm long, brown when ripe, and dehisce to release shiny black seeds with a yellow aril.