Acacia suaveolens

Acacia suaveolens (sweet wattle) is a shrub species endemic to Australia.

[2] It grows to between 0.3 and 3.5 metres high and has smooth purplish-brown or light green bark and has straight or slightly curving blue-green phyllodes [3][4] The pale yellow to near white globular flower heads generally appear between April and September in its native range.

[3] These are followed by flattened, bluish oblong pods which are up to 2 to 5 cm long and 8 to 19 mm wide.

[3][4] The species was first formally described by English botanist James Edward Smith in 1791 in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London He described it with reference to a cultivated plant at Syon House which had been raised by Thomas Hoy from seed that originated from New South Wales.

[3] This species provides winter colour in a garden and may be used as a low screen plant.