Acacia floribunda

[Vitalstatistix]

Hi. I wondering if anyone has had any experience with Acacia floribunda . I've recently attempted an extraction of the bark of this species without result. Is this species as variable as some of the others or is it subject to seasonal variations in alkaloid content?

Any info would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Jagube]

Floribunda is common and widely cultivated ..and the phyllodes work well.. if you aren't obsessed with getting white fluffy crystals then you really needn't look any further .. its also a damn beautiful tree when in flower

Thanks. In my case the stems with phyllodes didn't work, so maybe I have an inactive strain.

I will say this though.. using Naptha (Shellite) for Floribunda really doesn't work well at all so if you aren't ending up with anything first port of call I think should be a change of solvent. With shellite you will usually end up with strange droplets of "water" in your dish .. they are often DMT but take this strange form when using Shellite as the solvent.. works MUCH better with this tree using Toluene, Xylene or DCM.. extract will be more like honey

I backsalted the pulls with vinegar, so your comment on the droplets in the dish doesn't apply in this case.

If there was DMT in it, the naphtha should have pulled it and the vinegar should have pulled it out of the naphtha.

If it doesn't freeze precipitate well from naphtha, it must be a precipitation issue rather than a pulling issue.

 

[acacian]

Floribunda is common and widely cultivated ..and the phyllodes work well.. if you aren't obsessed with getting white fluffy crystals then you really needn't look any further .. its also a damn beautiful tree when in flower

Thanks. In my case the stems with phyllodes didn't work, so maybe I have an inactive strain.

I will say this though.. using Naptha (Shellite) for Floribunda really doesn't work well at all so if you aren't ending up with anything first port of call I think should be a change of solvent. With shellite you will usually end up with strange droplets of "water" in your dish .. they are often DMT but take this strange form when using Shellite as the solvent.. works MUCH better with this tree using Toluene, Xylene or DCM.. extract will be more like honey

I backsalted the pulls with vinegar, so your comment on the droplets in the dish doesn't apply in this case.

If there was DMT in it, the naphtha should have pulled it and the vinegar should have pulled it out of the naphtha.

If it doesn't freeze precipitate well from naphtha, it must be a precipitation issue rather than a pulling issue.

Yeah.. probably just didn't have anything.. is common for floribunda to yield nothing.. especially ones growing in urban areas for whatever reason (at least IMO) .. and yes Shellite/Naptha will still pull DMT and also precipitate it when working with floribunda .. but the end product is impossible to handle and I threw out a lot of extracts early on thinking it was nothing.. just thoguht I'd mention it

If your not in Australia and your extracting from random ones growing in your neihbourhood I'd not be surprised it it didn't yield.. in good bushland though with nice soil it seems fairly consistent.. good luck with it anyways.. the extracts from Floribunda are really nice. Slow and sensual.. maybe not quite as in your face with its message as other trees.. but I really like it. Floribunda extracts have pointed out the curious good in things and people that I had not been as perceptive of as I could have been.. its a soft and subtle teacher .. one of my favourites and one I hear few people talk about experientially so would love to hear other's experiences

I'm really not sure if its a strain thing or an environment thing.. my intuition and experience suggests the latter. She don't like the concrete jungle

 

[Jagube]

I am in a concrete jungle, yes. And not in Australia, but in the northern hemisphere.

The seed I was told was collected in the wild in Australia.
The tree is of the prostrate variety, if that helps. Yes, it looks beautiful when in flower.