Acacia Falciformis

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Common Name:

BROAD-LEAVED HICKORY

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WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE:

Small tree growing to 10m high and has an erect or spreading habit.
The phyllodes are usually oblanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, straight to falcate, to 22 cm long, and 4 cm wide, glabrous and mostly green to blue-green.
Has a phyllode gland usually about 3 cm above the leaf stalk which causes a distinct change of direction or pinch in the leaf margin – a useful identifying feature.
Flowers are arranged in globular heads, with diameter to 6 mm, containing up to 25 pale yellow/bright yellow to cream-coloured, very small staminate flowers, occurring in July to October.
The globular heads are arranged into racemes in leaf axils with up to about 20 heads per raceme.
The flat, leathery, brown seed pods are more or less straight but can be slightly curved, to 13 cm in length and to 2.5 cm wide and contain shiny, black seeds.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

It grows down the east coast of Australia in coastal areas and extending over the Great Dividing Range to the western slopes in a variety of habitats including moist rocky slopes, gullies and along watercourses. It also grows in Victoria and Qld.
A hardy plant in a well-drained situation.
Frost hardy (will tolerate frosts to -7 C ).

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Image Source: Flower - Fagg, M. via Australian National Botanic Gardens

Image Source: Plant - Fagg, M. via Australian National Botanic Gardens

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