Acacia podalyriifolia Habit

Acacia podalyriifolia
“Qld Silver Wattle”

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TREE TO 5 TO 8 METRES TALLAttractive spreading habit, silver grey foliage and showy golden yellow fluffy flowers in late Winter. Hardy, frost resistant, very fast and easy to grow. Attracts birds & butterflies. May be short-lived.

Suitability
Category	Small Trees up to 10m
Family	Mimosaceae
Aspect	Full Sun / Filtered Sun
Soil	Adaptable
Habitat	Dry Sclerophyll Forest
Features
Bird Attracting, Bush Food Plants, Butterfly Plants, Drought Tolerant Species, Frost Tolerant Plants
Localities
Dalby and surrounds, Ipswich area, Pine Rivers
Host Plant For These Butterflies
Short-tailed Line-blue (Prosotas felderi), Tailed Emperor (charaxes sempronius)
Seed From Pods & Fruit Food source for Birds Below
Australian King-parrot (Alisterus scapularis), Cockatiel (Nymphicus hollandicus), Common Bronzewing (Phaps chalcoptera), Crimson Rosella (Platycercus elegans), Galah (Eolophus roseicapilla), Glossy Black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus lathami), Little Corella (Cacatua sanguinea), Pale-headed Rosella (Platycercus adscitus), Peaceful Dove (Geopelia placida), Red-tailed Black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii), Spotted Dove (Spilopelia chinensis), Squatter Pigeon (Geophaps scripta scripta), Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita), Turquoise Parrot (Neophema pulchella), Wonga Pigeon (Leucosarcia melanoleuca), Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo (Zanda funerea)
Attracts Insects as a Food source for Birds Below
Australasian Pipit (Anthus novaeseelandiae), Black-breasted Button-quail (Turnix melanogaster), Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (Coracina novaehollandiae), Brown Gerygone (Gerygone mouki), Brown Quail (Synoicus ypsilophorus), Brown Thornbill (Acanthiza pusilla), Brown Treecreeper (Climacteris picumnus), Brush Cuckoo (Cacomantis variolosus), Channel-billed Cuckoo (Scythrops novaehollandiae), Common Cicadabird (Edolisoma tenuirostre), Common Koel (Eudynamys scolopacea), Crested Shrike-tit (Falcunculus frontatus), Dollarbird (Eurystomus orientalis), Eastern Whipbird (Psophodes olivaceus), Eastern Yellow Robin (Eopsaltria australis), Fan-tailed Cuckoo (Cacomantis flabelliformis), Golden Whistler (Pachycephala pectoralis youngi), Golden-headed Cisticola (Cisticola exilis), Grey Shrike-thrush (Colluricincla harmonica), Grey-crowned Babbler (Pomatostomus temporalis), Horsfield's Bronze-cuckoo (Chalcites basalis), Jacky Winter (Microeca fascinans), Large-billed Scrubwren (Sericornis magnirostra), Leaden Flycatcher (Myiagra rubecula), Little Bronze-cuckoo (Chalcites minutillus), Little Grassbird (Poodytes gramineus), Little Shrike-thrush (Colluricincla megarhyncha), Magpie-lark (Grallina cyanoleuca), Oriental Cuckoo (Cuculus optatus), Painted Button-quail (Turnix varius), Pale-yellow Robin (Tregellasia capito), Pallid Cuckoo (Cacomantis pallidus), Paradise Riflebird (Ptiloris paradiseus), Rainbow Bee-eater (Merops ornatus), Red-backed Fairy-wren (Malurus melanocephalus), Red-browed Treecreeper (Climacteris erythrops), Red-capped Robin (Petroica goodenovii), Rose Robin (Petroica rosea), Rufous Whistler (Pachycephala rufiventris), Scarlet Robin (Petroica boodang), Shining Bronze-cuckoo (shining bronze-cuckoo), Spangled Drongo (Dicrurus bracteatus), Speckled Warbler (Pyrrholaemus sagittatus), Spotted Pardalote (Pardalotus punctatus), Spotted Quail-thrush (Cinclosoma punctatum), Striated Pardalote (Pardalotus striatus), Striated Thornbill (Acanthiza lineata), Superb Fairy-wren (Malurus cyaneus), Varied Sittella (Daphoenositta chrysoptera), Varied Triller (Lalage leucomela), Variegated Fairy-wren (Malurus lamberti), Weebill (Smicrornis brevirostris), White-browed Scrubwren (Sericornis frontalis), White-throated Gerygone (Gerygone olivacea), White-throated Treecreeper (Cormobates leucophaea), White-winged Triller (Lalage tricolor), Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys leucophrys), Yellow Thornbill (Acanthiza nana), Yellow-rumped Thornbill (Acanthiza chrysorrhoa), Yellow-throated Scrubwren (Sericornis citreogularis)