Acacia Day - a little late

I didn't get out to take photos of the flowering wattles for the official Wattle Day so have decided that 16 September will be Acacia Day.  I have tried to find some photos of African What-used-to-be-Acacias (but following the taxonomic stoush of the Century (so far) have been renamed Vachellia and Senegalia) but all my snaps from Tanzania are ungood.  So we'll stick with the victorious Ocker Wattles.

To my surprise quite a few have survived the fire and are flowering nicely at the moment.

As is nearly always the case this season it was blowing a gale outside but hopefully these images will give the idea.  I have usually done close up first then a shot of a larger area of shrub/tree.

Acacia rubida: many of these bit the dust but this one is doing well.

 Quite a number of Acacia dealbata survived well.

 The most lurid survivors are Acacia mearnsii from the direct seeding.
 At a distance the very bright flowers stand out well against the relatively dark foliage.
 Not the best photo of Acacia pravissima but this is about the only one which survived.
The next day I found - OK noticed - a couple more of these, and as the wind was less intense was able to get some better images.


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