Acacia leptocarpa, commonly known as slender-fruited wattle, mangarr mangal, malakmalak, matngala or wagiman in Australian Aboriginal languages, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is a tree, rarely a shrub, with dark grey to almost black bark, narrowly elliptic, sickle-shaped, shortened phyllodes, spikes heads of yellow to golden yellow flowers and curved, curled or twisted pods constricted between and raised over the seeds.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of North coast 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.
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Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Fabales
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Acacia
- Species
- Acacia leptocarpa
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