Acacia Species, Eumong, Shoestring Acacia

Looks great and seems to do fairly well in my fairly harsh home of Hesperia, CA. Don't scoff at this southern California town, we'll regu...Read Morelarly see summer days over 105 and I remember a week or so in high school where it was 14 degrees every morning when I got in my car. Anyway, back to the stenophylla. I have been keeping my eye on a line of these trees along a major roadway for a few years now. They are underneath power lines and this year they grew too tall and the landscapers absolutely destroyed them hacking them down to a "safe" level, but just five or so months later you wouldn't be able to tell! They are laughing at this hot summer we are having and always look great, but I am waiting to see how they do when a real winter hits us. We haven't seen consecutive 14 degree nights in years, since before they were planted. Hopefully they don't die when the real cold comes.

Blooms, seeds and thrives on space coast barrier island in FL. Very attractive IMO. Not extremely allelopathic like some other acacia spe...Read Morecies e.g. Acacia melanoxylon.

I have several plants that have grown well for several years in zone 9a. This tree has a distinctive open canopy like nothing else I have...Read More seen in this area. The trees grow well in any well-drained, sunny site and are perfect for hot parking lot islands. As a bonus, the canopy does not block security lighting. Plants are hard to find in Florida but they grow easily from seeds. The trees tolerate regular winter dips into the low to mid-20's F but I did lose a young tree in a site after a winter low in the upper teens F.

fairly hardy and frequently available Australian tree for cultivation (at least here in southern California). Leaves are long and flat a...Read Morend leathery, either pale green or blue green (seem to be two distinct color varieties). Flowers are little 'puff-ball', pale yellow spheres in winter about 1cm in diameter.

Sometimes confused with Geijera paviflora, the Australian Willow, a much more densely leaved tree with itty bitty flowers in winter. This plants leaves are a similar shape but thinner and with a line down the center.