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Botany Acacia and Mimosa Identification Thread

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I never understood how immense and wide ranging these beautiful plants are until my recent trip to the forests of south western australia.

You cant avoid bumping into one if you tried.
I managed to forage some seed pods off of this species to take homr with me and plant but i dont know the exact species.
Some help with ID woud be much apreciated 😁
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Now that I am finally home And settled in... Phew!
I can post a pic of those seed pods from the above post.
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And here is another beauty I found on my ride today.
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I don't think it's A. Cyclops, the first picture was off a medium sized tree (roughly 10-12 feet tall) with 4-5cm phyllodes.
Looked nothing like the cyclops I've seen along the WA beaches.
The second photo is off a tree in Victoria, it was tall.... Very tall. Amongst quite a few others, I gauged one of them at around 30-40 metres tall.
I will take some photos of them tomorrow afternoon when I have more than 5% battery on my phone :p
I'm worried about the metadata (location information) of my phone, if they are a significant species I really don't feel comfortable having even photos taken from their location on the Internet. It's a spectacular grove, with many saplings in rich soil.
 
Ok so after researching, I've whittled down the scimitar shaped leaf specimen to either Implexa or Melanoxylon. Based on tree height and distribution.
And I think you are right about the first pic man, it is cyclops but not a variation I've witnessed before. Thanks for the help 😁
 
You should be able to differentiate them by the bark, the 2nd pic does look very much like a.implexa. Implexa bark is very rough, it usually grows spindly and tall. The moneys on implexa, although Ive never heard of it being tested before I get a good feeling about the strains with white/cream flowers.
 
This is the trunk of the suspected implexa.
I burnt a phyllode with my lighter and the smoke had a distinct acrid smell, after inhaling the smoke from the whole phyllode I felt very at peace with my surroundings. Not sure if that was a placebo though.
When I get some time I will do a test extraction to see if it is viable. There are half a dozen trees of that variety in the grove and they are well hidden from prying eyes.
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This was also in the grove.
A. Melanoxynon?
That is the trunk of it in the background, it was around 50 feet tall. No flowers or seed pods so it's difficult to ID.
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I have a sneaking suspicion it could be, but the phyllode shape is tending me toward a. Frigescens
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It is a vey close cousin of melanoxylon, occuring only in sub alpine regions so i dont know how it found its way down to its location. Looks quite old and the area is prone to flooding, maybe came down the yarra at the oppertune time. Chances are extremely rare though.
But those phyllodes man.
Here is mela ror comparisons sake.
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Tough one to call! There is a suspected a.frigescens near me but the veins are anastomising unlike that of melanoxylon. Maybe compare basal glands?
 
I am in Peru at the westend of the Amazon basin and this place is filled with acacias. I have no idea about acacia ID, so I was hoping someone here can help me with this one: white round flowers, smooth bark, long seedspods with ~20 small tearshaped seeds, no thorns... It is growing everywhere around here.
Please say A. polyphylla 😁
 

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Seems spot on, thank you for the ID. Well at least the young seed pods are edible and add to the wild forage things I know here 😉
When I find more species in flower, I will post them too. Until then its back to cactus, aya and mushrooms 😁
 
RideFree said:
Thank you DreamTripper :)

so, i'll upload more pictures this days..
from what i've heard, the acacias in spain & portugal where planted to stabilize the coast..
and now they are very invasive ;-)
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What species and which worth finding?
 
Found a magnificent specimen of A. Phlebophylla, it will be flowering in a month I will be sure to upload some pics of the flowers. The local council has planted a few in a reserve, I also spotted some Pycanthus and Implexa amongst them.
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It's good to see the phlebo's at least, being spread as much as possible. I will definitely be commandeering some seeds when the time comes for propagation.
 
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