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Botany Acacia and Mimosa Identification Thread

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yeah haha! ipod quality sorry, i'm not the photographer of the house.. high altitude, on sandstone and on the border abouts

Edit: will get better snaps in a few hours
 
Autocultivo said:
yeah haha! ipod quality sorry, i'm not the photographer of the house.. high altitude, on sandstone and on the border abouts

Edit: will get better snaps in a few hours
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If youre from southeast Aus it's highly likely to be Acacia Obtusifolia (or Longfolia, also containing trace amounts of DMT). Do you have any flowers to help identify it?
 
Nope not in flower dosen't seem to be starting to bud, be a bit early in the year for that. (if obtuse rite) phylodes are dark green, irregular edges, red spots up them and smells sort of like melted ice cream container on the burn test
 
its really hard to tell from those pictures though it does look like you may have obtusifolia. Are the phyllodes leathery? do they sometimes slightly twist irregularly and do they have red resinous edges? better pics are needed for proper identification.. obtusifolia also has slightly blunt and rounded tips. the fact that it is not flowering at the moment is a good sign.
 
Yeah I got some more photos now. They are leathery and they have red blotches down the sides, not as prevalent as some of the ones I've seen around here
 

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Okay soo.. I went back today and got another small branch. I also noticed a few ring barking's :?: despite SEVERAL fallen trees and branches, so now i'm pretty damn sure it's A.Obtuse thanks for the reassurances. I'll tread lightly as it is mainly young growth (I believe, although I'm no expert :p) I do know it's a privilege and an honor to have access to these great trees. I'll make sure to post up some results after the weather fines up for a decent while. Thanks again! :love:
 

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.. it looks to me like you have Acacia Concurrens... a good candidate for dmt. I don't beleive there has been any published findings of dmt, although there was I think a bioassay of an extract which was suspected to contain dmt or other tryptamines with a tree from 'A. cunninghamii group' [nen888]
 
Thank you, that is excellent news. It is actually quite amazing how many of these trees are around where I am, easily more than any other tree, any direction you look you will see one. But I guess there is only one way to find out it contains DMT or something similar.

I envy nen's knowledge, but what is the best way to learn how to identify each of these magical trees, Im slowly learning but they still all look very much the same to me.
 
pods are an important element of i.d and are one of the best indicators if one is unclear after studying the other components like phyllodes, flowers, bark etc .. the nerve arrangements are an important part of the phyllode to look at - as well as the texture, length and width, tip and edges. It is important to note the time of year that the tree flowers as well as when it puts out seed pods. the taxanomic features that distinguish differen't species are often subtle so it is good to look at these key features whenever studying acacias

a good article about taxonomy
 
Hi all, went for a bit of a walk today and found heaps of these acacia! can anyone ID them?
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Thats one flower.
The pic below is of one that hasn't flowered. Not sure if its an acacia. Pics of the tree + its trunk
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The trunk on the right is part of the tree!

Thanks!
 
Thats a really beautiful tree you've got there mate! I'm not sure what this one is...where abouts are you located?

it looks very much like acacia longifolia, although it seems to share genetics with other species or even is perhaps another species in its own rightas the phyllodes look shorter and more narrow than a typical longifolia.. and the flower rods are longer than longifolia.

yeah the second one is an acacia..

and yeah autocultivo, it looks like you have obtuse
 
Im located in sydney NSW. Yeah from what i've seen from looking around its an acacia longfolia. Are these a candidate for extraction?
 
sandman203 said:
Im located in sydney NSW. Yeah from what i've seen from looking around its an acacia longfolia. Are these a candidate for extraction?
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some strains are worth working with it seems.. I have not had experience myself with the active longifolia, though it apparently shares similarities with acacia obtusifolia and grows less prostrate than most longifolia.

here's a couple posts on active longifolia


 
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