This slender shrub forms an erect rounded habit with angular branches that form a dense crown. It has blue-green rounded phyllodes and the profuse ball-shape bright yellow flowers appear from spring to summer.

Hardiness zones 7 to 11

Acacia buxifoliais a common shrub that is naturally found along the east coast of Australia growing in dry woodlands and extending to the highlands of Victoria.

It grows in a well drained moderately fertile sandy-stony to clay loam with a pH 5-7 and prefers an open sunny northerly aspect. It is frost and drought tolerant.

The Box-leaved Wattle is a hardy shrub that is grown in coastal or inland gardens and parks as a specimen or as a quick filler plant. It is also use in new gardens or street plantings and is bird attracting. This fast growing shrub establishing in 2 to 3 years but is short lived. ID 1065

Acacia(a-KAY-see-a) buxifolia(bux-a-FO-lee-a)

Fabaceae (fab-AY-see-ee)
subfamilyMimosoideae
Wattles