Acacia melanoxylon

Blackwood at O'Malley, ACT

Acacia melanoxylon at O'Malley, ACT - 3 Sep 2017
Acacia melanoxylon at O'Malley, ACT - 3 Sep 2017
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Acacia melanoxylon 3 Sep 2017 BettyDonWood
Acacia melanoxylon 3 Sep 2017 Mike

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Only one flowering just yet. Beside bike trail on Mt Mugga Mugga.

4 comments

BettyDonWood wrote:
   4 Sep 2017
I presume it was planted or offspring thereof. Completely wrong habitat, which should be rainforest margins and regrowth, and moist areas near streams.
Mike wrote:
   4 Sep 2017
Another failure of geolocation on my phone. It was actually in Mugga Mugga Nature Reserve, which is still 'wrong habitat'. There are several individuals and groups of Acacia melanoxylon in Mugga Mugga and Isaacs Ridge, none of which has been planted. What wattles should be there?
Mike wrote:
   4 Sep 2017
I have fixed the location and noticed that one of the nearby sightings is Acacia boormanii which I don't think is a local wattle.
BettyDonWood wrote:
   4 Sep 2017
Boormanii in NSW occurs naturally in the southern parts of the Snowy Mtns and in the tablelands east of there, south of Cooma.

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Additional information

  • True In flower
  • 1 metre to 5 metres Plant height

Species information

  • Acacia melanoxylon Scientific name
  • Blackwood Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Local native
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • Up to 1744.23m Recorded at altitude
  • Machine learning
  • In flower
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  • Ngunnawal language

    Nummerak

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