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Cootamundra wattle
Acacia baileyana
Growing guidance
Horticultural figures below are practitioner estimates for planning, pending expert review. The botanical record further down is sourced and verifiable.
Current-climate suitability
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Sun
Full sun
Soil moisture
free-draining, average
Heat tolerance
Up to about 44°C
Cold tolerance
Down to about -6°C
Waterlogging tolerance
1/5
Drought tolerance
5/5
Mature size
4–8 m tall, 5 m spread
Seasonal interest
Winter · Golden
Maintenance
low
Wildlife supported
General wildlife value 4/5 (verified species relationships are shown only where structured data exists)
Known risks or warnings
Spreads beyond its home range in Australia — use local wattles instead.
Toxicity: none
Verified botanical record
- Accepted scientific name
- Acacia baileyana F.Muell.
- Family
- Fabaceae (Fabales)
- Rank and status
- species · accepted
- GBIF record
- Taxon 2981303
Recorded native range: Australia, New South Wales
Recorded as introduced in: Addo-Elephant National Park, Africa, Egypt, Africa, Kenya, Africa, South Africa, Africa, Swaziland, Africa, Zimbabwe, Agulhas National Park, America, Central America, Costa Rica, America, Central America, Mexico, America, North America, United States, California, America, North America, United States, Florida, America, South America, Argentina and 48 further regions
Ranges are exactly as recorded in the GBIF source checklists and may be incomplete for widely cultivated species.
Acacia baileyana, commonly known as Cootamundra wattle, Bailey's wattle or golden mimosa, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of New South Wales, although it has become naturalised in other parts of Australia. It is a shrub or tree with smooth bark, bipinnate leaves with mostly two to four pairs of oblong to narrowly oblong leaflets, spherical heads of bright yellow flowers arranged in 8 to 36 racemes in leaf axils, and straight, leathery pods up to 100 mm (3.9 in) long.
Description from Wikipedia — Acacia baileyana (CC BY-SA), shortened and unedited in substance.
Native status and geographic context
- United Kingdom: climate-suitable
- United States: climate-suitable
- Australia: regional
Native status is never inferred from climate similarity. Plants restricted or invasive in a jurisdiction are excluded from recommendations there.
Demonstration data. Climate, plant and retailer records shown here are realistic samples awaiting horticultural validation and live data connections.