Acacia excelsa, also known as ironwood, rosewood, doodlallie or bunkerman and as dhan, gayan or gan in the Gamilaraay language, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the north-east of Australia. It is a tree, often with a weeping habit, glabrous branchlets, with narrowly elliptic phyllodes, spherical heads of creamy-white to pale or bright yellow flowers and linear, firmly papery to crusty pods.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Doodlallie being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Asteromyrtus symphyocarpa
- Denhamia cunninghamii
- Melaleuca dealbata
- Ventilago viminalis
- Melaleuca viridiflora
- Acacia fasciculifera
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Fabales
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Acacia
- Species
- Acacia excelsa
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