Acacia terminalis

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Acacia terminalis, photographed by Andrew Harvey — fig. b Andrew Harvey, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190548515

Acacia terminalis, photographed by Joe Atkinson — fig. c Joe Atkinson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178501897

Acacia terminalis, photographed by Gary Williams — fig. d Gary Williams, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 162030742

Acacia terminalis, photographed by Thomas Mesaglio — fig. e Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 125804761

Acacia terminalis, photographed by tobyyy — fig. f tobyyy, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 124540718

Acacia terminalis, photographed by Tim — fig. h Tim, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 107890089

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Native distribution of Acacia terminalis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
New South Wales	NSW	AUSTRALASIA
Tasmania	TAS
Victoria	VIC

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 953 in flower of 1,345 examined

18%

58%

69%

87%

91%

88%

83%

50%

14%

Proportion of examined Acacia terminalis in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	7	40	18%	9% to 32%
Feb	38	66	58%	46% to 69%
Mar	88	128	69%	60% to 76%
Apr	143	165	87%	81% to 91%
May	165	189	87%	82% to 91%
Jun	175	193	91%	86% to 94%
Jul	146	166	88%	82% to 92%
Aug	125	150	83%	77% to 88%
Sep	52	103	50%	41% to 60%
Oct	9	64	14%	8% to 25%
Nov	2	46	4%	1% to 15%
Dec	3	35	9%	3% to 22%

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Acacia terminalis observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 953 of 1,345 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 1,964 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	1.5 °C	7.1 °C	11.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	19.5 °C	24.3 °C	26.7 °C
Annual rainfall	730 mm	1,075 mm	1,317 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	144 mm	191 mm	234 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,964 research-grade observations of Acacia terminalis that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 17 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Acacia botrycephala (Vent.) Desf.
Acacia discolor (Andrews) Willd.
Acacia discolor var. angustifolia Benth.
Acacia discolor var. fraseri Benth.
Acacia discolor var. glabra Benth.
Acacia discolor var. maritima (Benth.) Hook.f.
Acacia discolor var. unijuga Wawra
Acacia maritima Benth.
Acacia paniculata J.F.Macbr.
Acacia sieberiana Scheele
Mimosa bicolor Laun.
Mimosa botrycephala Vent.
Mimosa discolor Andrews
Mimosa paniculata J.C.Wendl.
Mimosa pinnata Cels ex Dum.Cours.
Mimosa terminalis Salisb.
Racosperma terminale (Salisb.) Pedley

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.