Acacia Avenue

Acacia Avenue is a cliché in British culture.^[1] It is a placeholder name for an unexceptional middle-class suburban street.^[1] It is named for Acacia, a genus of evergreen trees and shrubs indigenous to Australia and New Guinea but grown ornamentally in the UK.^[2]

A real Acacia Avenue in Newport

There are at least sixty Acacia Avenues in the United Kingdom,^[1] nine of them within Greater London.^{[citation needed]}

In Canada, the residence of the Leader of the Official Opposition, Stornoway, is located on Acacia Avenue in Ottawa, Ontario.

In media

• 29 Acacia Avenue is a play by Denis and Mabel Constanduros.
• English heavy metal band Iron Maiden's song "22 Acacia Avenue" is about a fictional brothel in an innocuous London house.
• Comic character Bananaman lives at 29 Acacia Road.