Acacia melanoxylon

Blackwood at Campbell, ACT

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Identification history

Acacia melanoxylon	2 Sep 2016	MichaelMulvaney
Acacia melanoxylon	29 Aug 2016	BettyDonWood
Acacia pycnantha	23 Aug 2016	BettyDonWood
Unidentified	22 Aug 2016	SilkeSma

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It might have been planted by someone, there are other trees around there that are clearly planted.

6 comments

BettyDonWood wrote:

24 Aug 2016

It is hard to tell from the photos. Acacia pycnantha has a central vein with secondary veins diverging from it. I cannot quite see that.

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

24 Aug 2016

The whitish stem and branches makes me think that it is Golden Wattle which is thought to be "local" to Mt Ainslie

SilkeSma wrote:

25 Aug 2016

I'm not too sure if this one has the central vein. I tend to think not. I'll go back in the next few days and will take another photo of the leaves.

SilkeSma wrote:

27 Aug 2016

I've put more photos of the leaves up. Clearly no central vein, so I don't think it's a A. pycnantha. What else could it be?

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

29 Aug 2016

Perhaps acacia melanoxyalon

BettyDonWood wrote:

29 Aug 2016

The leaves appear to be much wider than 30 mm, the widest in the descriptions in PlantNET and VicFlora. However, I cannot think what else it could be. VicFlora has notes on three allied species - Acacia melanoxylon as above, Acacia implexa, with leaves to 25 mm wide, and Acacia frigesecens, whose leaves are to 50 mm wide but which has branchlets with a waxy bloom. Perhaps wait till there are ripe seeds and pods.

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