Acacia leiocalyx, commonly known as blackwattle, early black wattle, early flowering black wattle, lamb's tail wattle or curracabah is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub or tree with fissured, flaky bark, very narrowly elliptic to narrowly elliptic, more or less straight to sickle-shaped phyllodes, spikes of pale yellow, sometimes lemon-yellow flowers and linear, leathery pods slightly constricted between the seeds.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Black 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 concurrens
- Acacia aulacocarpa
- Acacia leptocarpa
- Acacia julifera
- Acacia disparrima
- Acacia polystachya
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Fabales
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Acacia
- Species
- Acacia leiocalyx
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