Botanic Gardens Trust, Sydney, Australia Acacia leprosa ‘Scarlet
Blaze’ The Australian Botanic Garden, Mount Annan - September
|Common name ||Acacia 'Scarlet Blaze'| |Scientific name ||Acacia
leprosa ‘Scarlet Blaze’| |Family ||Faboideae - Mimosoideae|
|Etymology || | Genus: From the Greek akakia, the name of Acacia
arabica, of tropical Africa and Western Asia (from akis, a sharp
point, as this is a spiny species). Species: Having a scurfy
appearance, 'spotted like a leper'. |Distribution ||Originally
one red-flowering plant in the Black Range State Forest north-
east of Melbourne, Victoria. This plant is now dead.| |Native
habitat ||Woodland.| |Description ||A medium shrub to small
tree, a weeping form with large phyllodes and red flowers.|
|Flowering/fruiting ||Flowers in late winter/early spring at the
Australian Botanic Garden, Mount Annan.| You’ll find this plant
in the Wattle Garden in Beds 126, 133 and 141. This is an oddity
which you probably won’t easily find anywhere else. It’s the
world’s only red-fl