Scientific Name: Acacia maidenii

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  • Pronunciation:
    ah-KAY-sha MAY-den-ee (maiden-eye)
  • Common Name:
    Maiden's Wattle
  • Derivation:
    Acacia: Gr. akakia - to sharpen (first species described had short, pointed leaves) maifdenii: name honours J. H. Maiden, Government Botanist and early director of Sydney Botanic Gardens.
  • Type:
    Tree
  • Family:
    MIMOSACEAE
  • Flowers:
    Cream in rods. Prolific. Summer-Autumn
  • Fruit:
    Pod loosely coiled
  • Vegetation Type:
    Dry Eucalypt Forest forested country on fairly deep soils
  • Species List:
    Leslie Drive Roundabout, Weyba Esp, Emu Swamp, Bush food, Craft, Wooroi Day Use Area Tracks, NNP Parkedge/Alex, Cooroy Mill Site, Wooroi Palm Grove, BSDoonan, Cooloothin Corner, Banana, Mill Point, Johns, Cooroibah Conservation Park, Cooroibah Bushland Reserve, Janet, Cranks Creek, Batianoff 87, TAFE, Dandaloo NNS Fern Track, Lake Cooroibah West, Stratford Park, Heritage Park, Wallace Park,
Cultural Notes

TAKE CARE! Some information about bush foods and medicines may be anecdotal. Correct identification and preparation is essential:

Acacia species - Many wattle species have gum that exudes from their stems and trunks. The pale gums can be sucked like candy or soaked in water as jelly.

Source of fibre.

Identification Notes

Leaf (phyllodes) narrow and slightly curved with non-anastomosing veins. Lenticels on young woody stems. ||flowers yellow spikes

Associated Fauna

Host plant: Common grass yellow butterfly.

Landscaping Notes

Noosa Council Preferred Species list||