Flowering and fruiting period: July – February

Distribution: Australia

Habitat: Grown as avenue tree, also raised in plantations

Uses: The germinating seeds can be cooked and eaten as a vegetable. Gums are sometimes taken internally in the treatment of diarrhoea and haemorrhoids. The tree is widely grown to provide pulp for the paper industry.

Key Characters: Trees, to 30 m high, bark pale grey-brown. Phyllode simple; petiole stout, pulvinate; lamina elliptic-oblong, margin entire. Flowers bisexual, white, in loose axillary spikes; calyx gamosepalous; corolla
gamopetalous, deeply lobed; stamens many; filaments free; ovary superior, puberulous. Fruit a pod, woody, twisting into spiral cluster.