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Acacia Melanoxylon

Flower
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Price:
$110.00 (including GST)
Common Name:
BLACKWOOD
Quantity of Trays:

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: 

  • A large tree growing to up to 30 meters tall in a variety of habitats.
  • Phyllodes (modified leaves) are narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, to 14 cm long and 3 cm wide.
    Flowers are firstly arranged into globular heads, to10 mm diameter, with each head having up to 50 very small staminate flowers, pale yellow to white occurring in July to December. The heads are grouped into racemes, emerging from the leaf axils with up to 8 heads per raceme.
    Seed pods are strongly curved or twisted or coiled, to 12 cm long and about 1 cm wide.
    Phyllodes (modified leaves) are narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, to 14 cm long and 3 cm wide.
  • Flowers are firstly arranged into globular heads, to10 mm diameter, with each head having up to 50 very small staminate flowers, pale yellow to white occurring in July to December. 
  • The heads are grouped into racemes, emerging from the leaf axils with up to 8 heads per raceme.Seed pods are strongly curved or twisted or coiled, to 12 cm long and about 1 cm wide.

WHERE IT GROWS & WHY:

  • Adaptable to most soils and needs moderate watering. 
  • Good plant for moist conditions. 
  • Tolerates salt, snow & frost.

MANAGEMENT/SIGNIFICANCE:

  • Ornamentally, it is an attractive feature or shade tree in broad streetscapes, reserves and parks. 
  • Long lived and attracts birds, native butterflies and insects. 
  • Is also a caterpillar food plant. 
  • Can suffer from a number of pests, including borers, scale, galls and leaf miners. Growing plants suitable to your local environment minimises these occurring.
  • Will regenerate from seed after fire as well as basal suckering.
  • Highly valued for its decorative timber which may be used in cabinets, musical instruments and in boatbuilding.
  • Can grow to a large tree but in a garden it can be pruned to a medium to large shrub.

 

Image Source: Flower - John Robert McPherson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 

Image Source: Plant - John Robert McPherson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons