Silver Wattle
Acacia retinodes Schltdl.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 8.0 m
- wide
- —
Fabaceae
Also called Everblooming wattle, Swamp wattle, Wirilda, Water wattle
Formerly Racosperma retinodes
When it flowers
Flowers April to May 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
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. South AustraliaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 6.0 m to 10 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: spread, water, coldest it survives, 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.
African irisFlowers June to March, when this does not
Bird of paradiseFlowers June to March, when this does not
Cape leadwortFlowers June to March, when this does not
Creeping WoodsorrelFlowers June to March, when this does not
French lavenderFlowers June to March, when this does not
Heart-leaf ice plantFlowers June to March, when this does not
In other languages (10)
- Spanish
- Acacia plateada
- French
- Mimosa d'été
- Czech
- akácie pryskyřičnatá
- Italian
- acacia resinosa
- Russian
- Акация стойкая
- Chinese (China)
- 沼泽银相思
- Chinese
- 沼澤銀相思, 树胶状相思, 树脂金合欢
- Slovak
- akácia mnohokvetá
- Hebrew
- בת-שיטה רישתית
- Turkish
- İzmir Akasyası
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Acacia retinodes (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.