Description: Rough Hairy Wattle, Acacia hispidula. The leaves are asymmetric, elliptic, curved, rough with points on the rim. Heathcote National Park, NSW Australia, May 2013. Date: 4 May 2013, 15:31. Source: Acacia hispidula leaves. Author: John Tann from Sydney, Australia. Camera location34° 06′ 57.16″ S, 150° 56′ 56.84″ EView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-34.115879; 150.949122.
Description: Rough Hairy Wattle, Acacia hispidula, seed pod. Heathcote National Park, NSW Australia, May 2013. Date: 4 May 2013, 15:33. Source: Acacia hispidula pod. Author: John Tann from Sydney, Australia. Camera location34° 06′ 57.16″ S, 150° 56′ 56.84″ EView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-34.115879; 150.949122.
Description: Rough Hairy Wattle, Acacia hispidula, grows to about 1 m tall. Heathcote National Park, NSW Australia, May 2013. Date: 4 May 2013, 15:31. Source: Acacia hispidula. Author: John Tann from Sydney, Australia. Camera location34° 06′ 57.16″ S, 150° 56′ 56.84″ EView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-34.115879; 150.949122.
Blue Mountains National Park west of Sydney, New South Wales. Woodford Range about 2 km south of park entrance gate at Glenbrook.The apparently simple leaves are in fact phyllodes, modified petioles, as they are in all Australian Acacias except for a minority that have pinnate or bipinnate leaves in the adult phase.