Acacia Implexa

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Common Name:

HICKORY WATTLE

PLEASE NOTE: Orders are by full tray only. Each tray contains 40 plants. When ordering, please choose how many trays you would like.

WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE:

Erect tree with rough greyish bark, growing 5–12 m high, usually single-stemmed

‘Leaves’ curved or sickle-shaped, up to 18 cm long and 2.5 cm wide, with prominent parallel veins; juvenile foliage bi-pinnate or ‘fern-like’

Pale ball flowers in open clusters on glossy stalks; flowering December to April

Seed pods woody, twisted or coiled, 8–20 cm long, 4–6 mm wide; seeds with a cream stalk or aril attaching them to the pod
Erect tree with rough greyish bark, growing 5–12 m high, usually single-stemmed.
‘Leaves’ curved or sickle-shaped, up to 18 cm long and 2.5 cm wide, with prominent parallel veins; juvenile foliage bi-pinnate or ‘fern-like’.
Pale ball flowers in open clusters on glossy stalks; flowering December to April.
Seed pods woody, twisted or coiled, 8–20 cm long, 4–6 mm wide; seeds with a cream stalk or aril attaching them to the pod.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

Widespread on various soils in undulating well-drained country, typically on shallow, drier soils, also on light alluvial soils.
Tolerates frost, fire, drought and strong winds, intolerant of salinity and waterlogging.

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

Useful medium-level cover in windbreaks; suckers from roots to form thickets; improves soil fertility by ‘fixing’ nitrogen.
Tolerant of stock camps and open paddock conditions
Timber is red-brown with paler stripes, hard, close-grained, moderately durable and used for furniture, flooring, turning and firewood; potential farm forestry species
Excellent habitat, providing pollen and seed for many native insects and birds when food is scarce in summer
Long-lived but prone to woody stem galls caused by a fungal infection

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

Acacia Melanoxylon - Blockwood - had straighter 'leaves' and seeds with red seed arils.

Image Source: Flower - Green, C via Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG)

Image Source: Plant - Green, C via Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG)

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