This showy purple acacia is very fast growing and tough. The mauve to silvery gray foliage is stunning and the feathery texture adds much to a landscape. Profuse, fragrant yellow blooms in the early part of the season. If purple is not your color, the plain baileyana has gray green foliage and grows to the same form. Like most acacias, baileyana can reseed freely.
Drought tolerant, frost hardy and disease resistant once established. Baileyana 'Purpurea' spreads out a wide canopy and is easily shaped as a patio or street tree. It is lovely when left as a multi-trunk form as well. Some shearing is recommended to keep purple coloring in the new growth. Perhaps its only failing is that acacias can be short lived - around 30 years.
This showy acacia should be planted in more places in Marina—perhaps on your street? |
Maximum height
20-30 feet high
20-40 feet wide
Life Span
30+ years |
