CAT-00088
Raspberry jam wattle
Acacia acuminata
Catalog fields
- Genus
- Acacia
- Photo
- Not recorded
- Edible
- Yes
- layout
- double
- Habitat
- Often in gently undulating topography, growing in lateritic gravels or red-brown earths in low semi-arid woodlands and tall shrublands, and in clayey soils on flats and in red sands, often near intermittent streams. Information on the biological and ecological features, and the utilisation potential, of this species is given in B.R. Maslin and M.W. McDonald, AcaciaSearch: Evaluation of Acacia as a woody crop option for southern Australia, RIRDC Publication No. 30/017, 32–38 (2004).
- Published
- Yes
- Food group
- Nut / seed
- Latin name
- Acacia acuminata
- Fruit photo
- Not recorded
- Plant title
- Raspberry jam wattle
- Source URLs
- https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Acacia%20acuminata | https://tuckerbush.com.au/raspberry-jam-wattle-acacia-acuminata/ Open source ↗ Open source 2 ↗
- Catalogue ID
- CAT-00088
- Mature width
- 3m
- Native range
- Occurs in southwestern Western Australia where it extends from just N of the Murchison River, S to Borden and E to Balladonia; outlying populations occur near Yalgoo and Paynes Find. The eastern boundary of the main area of occurrence abuts that of Acacia burkittii which is common in the adjacent arid zone. Incipiently adventive in some parts of Victoria.
- Plant family
- Fabaceae
- Supplier SKU
- Not recorded
- Listing group
- Nursery-listed / regional edible
- Mature height
- 5m
- Native states
- WA
- Original list
- No
- Research date
- 10/10/2026
- Research notes
- Profile enriched from botanical/nursery sources. Dimensions are unpruned regional estimates where available; missing measurements remain explicit. Seasons are regional guides and vary with climate, location, cultivar and plant maturity. Drought and cultivation guidance are qualitative garden inferences, not measured ratings.
- Evidence status
- Nursery food-use source; preparation detail review pending
- Fruiting season
- Summer pods.
- Background photo
- Not recorded
- Edible component
- Processed mature seeds
- Flowering season
- Spring.
- Brief description
- Small tree or shrub with narrow phyllodes and scented timber.
- Drought tolerance
- High once established.
- Preparation notes
- Species-specific edible seed use; mature seeds generally processed/roasted. Do not generalise to other wattles.
- Flower description
- Golden-yellow flowers in elongated rod-like spikes.
- General cultivation
- General guidance (qualitative): Trial full sun and very good drainage; humid summer conditions differ from native habitat.
- Botanical description
- Obconic shrub or tree (2–) 3–7 (–10) m high. New shoots with silky, yellow, appressed hairs. Branchlets ascending to erect, infrequently ± pendulous, glabrous. Phyllodes ascending to erect or spreading at various angles, linear to narrowly elliptic, flat, normally straight to shallowly curved, (5–) 8–15 (–18) cm long, (1.5–) 2–8 (–10) mm wide, tapered to a curved-acuminate to caudate, non-pungent, slender apex, bright green, glabrous except fimbriolate in upper c. ½, finely multistriate; midvein often the most prominent. Inflorescences simple, normally 1 or 2 in phyllode axils; spikes sessile, (7–) 10–30 mm long (dry), golden. Flowers mostly 4-merous; calyx dissected by ½ or more, with lobes usually narrow. Pods linear, flat but variably raised over seeds and straight-edged to constricted between them, (2–) 3–8 cm long, 2.5–7 mm wide, firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous-crustaceous, brown, clothed with sparse minute caducous hairs. Seeds longitudinal, oblong or elliptic to ovate, 2–4.5 mm long, 1.5–3 mm wide, compressed (1–2.5 mm thick), dark brown to black, shiny to slightly shiny; aril membranous, white or creamy white.
- Other botanical names
- Not recorded
- Attracts birds and bugs
- Native bees and insects visit flowers; canopy shelters birds.
- Flora of Australia profile
- https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Acacia%20acuminata Open source ↗
- Fruit type and description
- Dry seed pods containing mature edible seeds after correct processing.
- Flora of Australia citation
- B.R. Maslin & P.G. Kodela. Acacia acuminata. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Canberra. https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Acacia%20acuminata (accessed 2026-10-14). Copyright Commonwealth of Australia; CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). HTML formatting removed; species-level context added where noted. Open source ↗ Open source 2 ↗
- Flora of Australia retrieved
- 14/10/2026