Bushy, spreading shrub 2–4 m high. Bark green on young plants. Branchlets often ultimately pendulous, angled at extremities, normally pruinose, glabrous. Phyllodes narrowly to broadly linear, sometimes narrowly elliptic, 5–14 cm long, 3.5–8 mm wide, thin, glabrous; mucro delicate, 1–2 mm long, straight or curved; midrib rather prominent; lateral veins absent or obscure; gland not prominent, 1–10 mm above pulvinus. Inflorescences 8–16-headed racemes; raceme axes 2–4 cm long, glabrous, pruinose, frequently growing out, enclosed when young by conspicuous imbricate bracts; peduncles 6–10 mm long, slender, glabrous; heads globular, 12–17-flowered, pale yellow to lemon yellow. Flowers 5-merous, sweet-scented; sepals free. Pods normally 6–12 cm long, 6–12 mm wide, thinly coriaceous, commonly pruinose, glabrous. Seeds longitudinal, oblong to elliptic, 5–6.5 mm long, ±dull, dark brown to black; aril narrow.
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A shrub. It grows 2-5 m tall. The stems are slender and the branches spreading. The leaves (phyllodes) are silvery blue-green. The flowers are in long heads. The flowers are yellow. The pods are raised alternately over the seeds.
Popular in cultivation, with many forms, some having very pendulous branchlets, others more upright. See W.R. Elliot & D.L. Jones, Encyclopaedia of Australian Plants 2: 68 (1982) for discussion.
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