Acaciella angustissima (Miller) Britton & Rose (Whiteball Acacia, Prairie Acacia)

[Justintime]

According to all the information I have found on this plant it likes to grow in Arizona, Texas and comes from Australia but I found it here in Northwest Arkansas.

SEINet Portal Network - Acacia angustissima

polyploid.net: SW Plants

Here is a link to download the PDF with a lot of information on it.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.daf.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/62556/IPA-White-Ball-Acacia-Risk-Assessment.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjjjdXjgs_ZAhVRcq0KHciuCIUQFjANegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw35MWbt5OpqMp08S3n4sznI

 

[Justintime]

Here are a few pictures of the plant, seed pods and roots

 

[Justintime]

Roots

 

[Justintime]

Extraction coming soon...

 

[Lupis Arante]

Hey Justintime!

Did you end up conducting an extraction on your material?

From what I have heard, A. Angustussima has a relatively small alkaloid content, so if you get a small or fruitless yield, don't be disheartened. As with most acacias, further extractions are needed to evaluate accurately the plants content.

Thank you very much for being part of the process! :thumb_up:

 

[Justintime]

Hey Justintime!

Did you end up conducting an extraction on your material?

From what I have heard, A. Angustussima has a relatively small alkaloid content, so if you get a small or fruitless yield, don't be disheartened. As with most acacias, further extractions are needed to evaluate accurately the plants content.

Thank you very much for being part of the process! :thumb_up:

I have it ground up in my freezer waiting. I've been having to do all my fun as a woodsman since we moved in to help out my mother and father in-laws. But I plan on it soon.
Yeah the cost of getting a good amount of this stuff was 20 mosquito bites and a really weird bug kept swarming around and landing on me lol

 

[Justintime]

Getting close... I'm doing similar to cybs to see if I can get crystals

 

[Justintime]

I don't want to get anybody's hopes up

 

[Justintime]

Well looks pretty bland didn't get anything

 

[downwardsfromzero]

Great attempt, the yield rings true with what Lupis Arante was saying.

This was from the roots? What might the alkaloid content of the other parts be?

It would be worth trying again in another season, perhaps after a long dry spell. Just for the record, what time of year was it and what were the weather conditions prior to harvest?

 

[Justintime]

The Roots were harvested around June I could do an extraction of the upper part they die off every winter And regrow from The Roots