Acacia melanoxylon
Blackwood at Illilanga & Baroona
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| Acacia melanoxylon | BettyDonWood | 10 Aug 2018 | |
| Acacia melanoxylon | BettyDonWood | 29 Jul 2018 | |
| Acacia penninervis var. penninervis | Illilanga | 22 Jul 2018 |
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Private property. No public access without permission. Flower buds are visible.
7 comments
30 Jul 2018
Penninervis has an oblique vein running from a gland 5-30 mm above the leaf stalk, connected to the midvein. The leaf edge is typically indented at that point, The flower heads have 15-30 flowers. It grows in dry forest. Melanoxylon does not have the vein. Its flower heads have 30-50 flowers. It lives near streams and on rainforest edges. http://worldwidewattle.com/imagegallery/image.php?p=0&l=m&id=10955&o=1
31 Jul 2018
Thanks for the info. I will check the leaves and get some close photos of the leaves plus the flower heads and seed pods when it flowers. There may even be some seed pods left on the ground. The forming flower heads look fairly sparse. The leaves and yellowish branchlets are what struck us as being different. The tree is within a box woodland (Bridgesiana/Melliodora) on a dry SW slope. It is very slow growing (this tree is at least 18 years old) and much bushier than our planted Melanoxylons near the house but that could be a result of the location.
31 Jul 2018
If it naturally growing in a dry position it is very unlikely to be melanoxylon. Better photos of the leaves, flower heads in late bud so as to count the individual flowers, and other diagnostics (as in the drawings of the link) would help. The Wattle app should be out very soon.
31 Jul 2018
It looks like A. melanoxylon with tight flower buds at this time of year, but there could be other wattles I am not familiar with. A. melanoxylon is fairly widespread in the ACT though it does not seem to be restricted to moist areas and gullies.
31 Jul 2018
Mike’s comment about the buds was what struck me initially.
If you can wait till it releases seed from the mature pods, that is really diagnostic. At the botanic gardens the paths under the Acacia melanoxylon trees at seed time are covered in seeds with very showy bright pink to red fleshy arils arranged as in the line drawing in the link. The ants love them.
If you can wait till it releases seed from the mature pods, that is really diagnostic. At the botanic gardens the paths under the Acacia melanoxylon trees at seed time are covered in seeds with very showy bright pink to red fleshy arils arranged as in the line drawing in the link. The ants love them.
6 Aug 2018
I added a close up photo of the leaf taken last week. Pretty certain it is A. melanoxylon based on the leaf structure. Thanks for your help with the ID. I'll add another sighting when it flowers.
10 Aug 2018
Confident of A. melanoxylon bc of location and habitat notes. See: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acacia~melanoxylon
Location information
- Coordinates 149.154776-35.779648
- Altitude 799.2m
- Maps Illilanga & Baroona
- Places Michelago, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 22 Jul 2018 11:46 AM Recorded on
- Illilanga Recorded by
- 1 metre to 5 metres Plant height
Collections
- Illilanga Completed Illilanga Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Acacia melanoxylon Wattles Plants
Species information
- Acacia melanoxylon Scientific name
- Blackwood Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1744.23m Recorded at altitude
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Nummerak
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