Flowering and fruiting period: Throughout the year
Distribution: Native of tropical Australia
Habitat: Grown as avenue tree, also raised in plantations
Uses: Timber yielding, tannin source, weed with ability to outstrip any
competition
Key Characters: Trees, to 15 m high, bark brown, smooth. Phyllodes
alternate; stipules lateral; petiole pulvinate, slender, glabrous; lamina linear,
margin entire. Flowers bisexual, yellow, in axillary spike; calyx campanulate;
lobes 5; corolla lobes 5, lobes lanceolate; stamens many; ovary superior,
subsessile, glabrous. Fruit a pod, flat, woody and much twisted in irregular
coils; seeds black, with orange-yellow coloured aril. |