Earpod Wattle
అకేషియా అరికులిఫోర్మిస్അക്കേഷ്യআকাশমণি
Acacia auriculiformis A.Cunn. ex Benth.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 11 m
- wide
- 9.1 m
Fabaceae
Also called Black Wattle, Common Acacia, Earleaf Acacia, Ear-leaf Acacia, Earleaf acacia
Formerly Racosperma auriculiforme
When it flowers
Flowers May to December in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. Maluku to New Guinea and N. AustraliaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from UF/IFAS, one source
- Height
- 11 m to 12 mRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Spread
- 7.6 m to 11 mRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from UF/IFAS, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from UF/IFAS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from UF/IFAS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
Apple-of-PeruFlowers January to April, when this does not
Arabian jasmineFlowers January to April, when this does not
Barbados lilyFlowers January to April, when this does not
Billygoat weedFlowers January to April, when this does not
Black-eyed Susan vineFlowers January to April, when this does not
Blue dazeFlowers January to April, when this does not
In other languages (11)
- Chinese
- 耳莢相思樹, 耳果相思 (耳葉相思), 大叶相思
- Russian
- Акация ушковидная
- Chinese (China)
- 大叶相思, 耳叶相思树
- Thai
- กระถินณรงค์
- Finnish
- korva-akaasia
- Spanish
- Acacia de vaina orejuda
- Simplified Chinese
- 大叶相思, 澳洲相思, 耳叶相思
- Tongan
- ʻAkāsia loutelinga
- Telugu
- అకేషియా అరికులిఫోర్మిస్
- Bangla
- আকাশমণি
- Malayalam
- അക്കേഷ്യ
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- UF/IFAS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Acacia auriculiformis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.