Northern Territory Photographs

Acacia Dimidiata

Family: Mimosaceae

A shrub to about 3 metres with bright yellow cylindrical flowers, blooming spectacularly in the early part of the Dry Season
Can be found quite readily on the roadsides around Darwin

Acacia Holosericea

Family: Mimosaceae

Common shrub or tree growing to 6 metres or more. produces pale yellow cylindrical flowers from about the middle of May to early August and can be found quite readily on the roadsides around Darwin

Acacia Mimula

Family: Mimosaceae

Tall tree, to 7 or 8 metres, with quite showy droopy clusters of cream or pale yellow globular flowers. Flowers early to mid Dry Season
Quite common in the bushland and roadsides around Darwin

Acacia Sublanata

Family: Mimosaceae

Sparse sprawling shrub with yellow to orange coloured globular flowers, flowers best at the end of the Wet Season (April)
Not a common plant and once again you will have to look to find it, usually on the hillsides or broken ground of the ridges and escarpments

Acacia Hammondii

Family: Mimosaceae

I have some doubt as to the proper identity of this one, I've called it Hammondii, but it's very similar to Acacia Conjunctifolia, or maybe it's the same plant but there are disparities with my reference materials
Anyway, it's not all that common, and doesn't flower all that spectacularly. Grows to about 3 or 4 metres with a hairy dark brown bark on it's main trunk

Acacia Gonocarpa

Family: Mimosaceae

Spindly looking creamy coloured flowers on this one, flowers from the early Wet Season to about March
Smallish shrub to about 3 metres, not all that common so you will have to look for it

Acacia Nuperrima

Family: Mimosaceae

Smallish shrub to about 2 metres, fairly dense with small globular flowers for most of the year
Can be found on the ridges and escarpments surrounding Darwin, but is not all that common

Black Wattle Tree
(Acacia Auriculiformis)

Family: Mimosaceae

Large tree growing up to 20 metres. Can be a bit of a nuisance tree if growing in built up areas, but makes up for it when it flowers, as it produces an all over spread of dense cylindrical bright yellow flowers. Very pretty tree indeed when in flower