Acacia falciformis, commonly known as mountain hickory, broad-leaved hickory, hickory wattle, black wattle, tanning wattle or large-leaf hickory wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern continental Australia. It is a shrub or tree, with glabrous branchlets, usually sickle-shaped phyllodes, spherical heads of creamy yellow flowers and thinly leathery, glabrous pods.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Large-leaf Hickory-wattle 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
- Acacia falcata
- Acacia obliquinervia
- Acacia pycnantha
- Acacia bancroftiorum
- Acacia penninervis
- Acacia implexa
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Fabales
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Acacia
- Species
- Acacia falciformis
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