Acacia melanoxylon
Layer: Tall trees
USDA Hardiness Zone: 9 - 11
Edible: Yes
Edible parts: Flowers
Light requirement: Full sun
Water requirement: Dry, Moist
Soil texture preferences: Light sandy, Medium
Utilities: Nitrogen fixer, Lumber, Dye, Tannin, Fragrance, Erosion control
Native To: New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria
Introduced To: New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria
Warnings: Weed potential
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- 1000 seed weight (g)
- 14
- Alternate name
- Australia acacia, black acacia, blackwood acacia
- Family
- Fabaceae or leguminosae
- Growth
- Fast
- Height
- 30.0
- Introduced into
- Algeria, Amsterdam-St.Paul Is, Angola, Argentina Northeast, Assam, Azores, Brazil South, California, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Chile North, Chile South, Colombia, East Himalaya, Easter Is., Ecuador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Florida, France, Great Britain, Greece, Hawaii, India, Italy, Juan Fernández Is., Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Madeira, Mauritius, Morocco, Nepal, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Pakistan, Palestine, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Réunion, Spain, Sri Lanka, St.Helena, Swaziland, Tanzania, Transcaucasus, Ukraine, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Australia, Zaïre
- Plants for a future
- https://pfaf.org/User/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Acacia melanoxylon
- Plants of the world online
- https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:470873-1
- Wikipedia
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acacia_melanoxylon
Slug: acacia-melanoxylon
Permapeople ID: 510