PlantFiles: Oven's Wattle, Alpine Wattle
Acacia pravissima

Grows like a weed in Western WA. nice when they bloom, full of flowers! i think they look scragly the rest of the year.

I am a new gardner in Portland, OR, and have had incredible success with this plant. I loved it so much I now have one in front garden and one in back. It grows super fast, and seems to have no problems. It is cold hardy, and seems bug resistant. It is pretty drought tolerant as well. It grows in the most amazing shapes, and I have been spotting them in other gardens around town, each one is so special looking.

AKA Winged Acacia (Forest Farm)

Flowers well in S E England and is hardy to at least -6 deg C. Forms a large untidy bush but can be pruned to shape after flowering. Massive amounts of flower just coming out on my plant in late March which is almond scented especially in sunny weather.

This is a popular Acacia in cultivation. It grows narurally in hilly country in North-East Victoria and New South Wales. It is a large shrub growing to nearly 4 metres. Like many Australian wattles, the true leaves are only present when the plant is very young. What passes for leaves are phyllodes, which are modified flattened leaf-stalks, usually flattened in the plane of the stem rather than at right-angles to it. The Ovens Wattle phyllodes are unusual, being almost triangular in shape, just 1 cm across. I have a shrub in my front garden which after some 10 years is 3 metres tall and is currently covered in golden-yellow flowers.