Identifying acacia's(UPDATE)

[Wise420]

Hey guys new here, sorry if this thread is in the wrong place!

My place backs onto heaps of bushland(north of sydney in NSW Australia) and I just went out before to clip some stems/leaves of plants I thought may have been the maidenii and another acacia that may have DMT in it.

The plant I think is maidenii isnt flowering(I read they flower between jan-march) but the leaves look very similar to photo's on google and other sites.

Hopefully someone can fill me in on wheather these pics are of the maidenii or other acacias containing the goods, or wheather there not. Thanks.
maidenii?

And the other plant I think is an acacia.

 

[nn-DreemMasterTree]

dont bother with maidenii, they have little to no spice content, despite clams all over the net and in that auzi botany book, it was a mistake. look for obtusifolia. and none of the trees you found so far are any good. also be careful with the trees man!

 

[nn-DreemMasterTree]

sorry that top pic might be containing in the filodes and bark but not sure,

 

[Dr Sway]

Are you coastal or inland?

Top one's probably A. longifolia.

Bottom one looks like A. mearnsii or A. irrorata but again, hard to tell just from the photos.

If you're serious about IDing Acacia you should spend some time in a library or buy a field guide. There are a lot of them out there!

 

[Wise420]

Thanks for the reply's. Im on the coast. If the first plant is a longifolia then it should have .2% DMT, i relise it's a low % but its still something so would it be worth trying to extrect a large ammount?

Ill go out again tomorrow and try to ID more plants.

 

[Dr Sway]

No. It /might/ have 0.2% DMT. The figures you see quoted all over the web are not reliable, not generalizable over an entire species. The hearsay of the internet makes this game far from a science, even though it should be.

Most consider A. longifolia not worth the trouble. And given its abundance near major population centers and morphological similarity to obtusi, you can bet many people have tried.

 

[Wise420]

Thanks Dr Sway.

Well I just got back from a 30 min bush bash and found about 5 different acacia's(what I believe to be) so im hoping ive struct the goods. Let me know what you all think about these next plants. (sorry the pics/plants are kinda mixed up!)

 

[Dr Sway]

Dude. You really should buy/borrow Robinson's field guide to Sydney's native plants or similar.

Field Guide to the Native Plants of Sydney

Fishpond Australia, Field Guide to the Native Plants of Sydney by Les RobinsonBuy . Books online: Field Guide to the Native Plants of Sydney, 2003, Fishpond.com.au

www.fishpond.com.au

I see three plants there. The first just looks like A. longifolia again to me. The second (one with berries and flaky bark) is a Persoonia. Not even same family. The third is an Acacia and should be easy to ID given the distinctive fruit, if you looked at a field guide. I don't know what it is.

Rewards will come from making some effort on your own part.

 

[Wise420]

Cheers for the link.

Ill try to find a copy soon.