🌳 Coast Wirilda 🔎(Acacia uncifolia). ⏳Conservation Status: Endangered. 🗺Endemicity: Eastern and south-western Australia. — The Coast Wirilda is “facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild” due to its limited distribution. Limited to the calcareous sand and sandy loam soils of the southern coast of Victoria. 🌳 In the middle of the warmest seasons the Coast Wirilda produces flowers, seed, sap and new vegetative growth. At this time of the year different wattlebird species are guarding these trees with their lives—the flowers are one of the most fragrant of the wattle species and when dried they taste and smell like honey mixed with wattleseed. Nutty and sweet. 🌳 Like all acacias they fix nitrogen in the soil. Their bark contains saponin so it can be used to temporarily poison water to catch fish. Their sap is a neutral, non-poisonous gum. It’s a host plant for the local mistletoe species which are hosts for dozens of butterfly species. A major food plant for the ringtail possums. 🌳 Seeds and plants available at 🌳www.reforest.org.au🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 #coastwirilda #wirilda #acacia #reforest #plants #trees #revegetation #forest #nativeplants #morningtonpeninsula #capeschanck #indigenousplants (at Cape Shanck - Mornington Peninsula) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnaTdsdhktW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
