This large shrub to small tree has a slender trunk with spreading pendulous branches that form an open rounded crown. It has dark green lanced-shaped leaves and the lemon-yellow ball-shaped flowers appear from late winter to spring.

Hardiness zones 8 to 9

Acacia leprosais naturally found in Australia growing on the coast and the adjoining tablelands in southern New South Wales and Victoria.

It prefers a most well drained moderately fertile sandy to light clay soil in a sunny cool protected position and is moderately drought and frost tolerant.

Cinnamon Wattle is grown for its flowers and its weeping habit. It is planted in parks and gardens as a specimen or in shrub borders for screeniing and attracting birds. It is suitable for coastal and adjoining tablelands, establishing in 2 to 3 years. It is also grown in groups as a wind break or used in new gardens. ID 2444

Acacia (a-KAY-see-a) leprosa(le-pro-să)

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