Acacia melanoxylon

Blackwood at Symonston, ACT

Acacia melanoxylon at Symonston, ACT - 30 Aug 2014
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Identification history

Acacia melanoxylon 1 Apr 2015 MichaelMulvaney
Acacia melanoxylon 23 Mar 2015 RussellB
Unidentified 19 Feb 2015 Mike

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3 comments

BettyDonWood wrote:
   26 Mar 2015
In the Canberra area, it is out of season for Acacia implexa (too late) and Acacia melanoxylon (too early). Perhaps wait till it has ripe seed. Arils (funicles) on A. implexa are white with a few folds at one end. Those on A. melanoxylon are pink to red, folded twice around the seed. The characters I can see in this photo do not differentiate between these two species.
galah681 wrote:
   28 Mar 2015
Acacia implexa flowers in late summer and could be still in flower with the mild weather we have had this year.
   28 Mar 2015
This is an old photo taken on 30 August 2014 so most likely A. melanoxylon

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  • True In flower

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

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